When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...

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Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

(CNN) — An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --A New South Wales, Australia, man called for help when a venomous tiger snake slithered across his foot while he was a passenger in his car. Tanny Parsons said he was riding in the ...

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Oct. 22 (UPI) --A Washington, D.C., man turned a set of numbers he spotted on a license plate into a $50,000 prize from a Maryland Lottery Pick 5 drawing. John Murphy told Maryland Lottery officials ...

More than 15 years after Odd Fellow Hall was moved across Market Street, new graffiti at Salt Lake City’s federal courthouse appears to revive a feud that never was. The tag, which a Salt Lake Tribune ...