Despite the wheel's immeasurable impact, no one is certain as to who invented it, or when and where it was first conceived.

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A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a ...

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

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An asteroid that burst onto the scene with an unusually high risk of striking Earth has just had its collision risk upgraded.

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Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, ...