Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

With its wide field of view, the TESS space observatory continuously monitors large swathes of the sky and records the faintest fluctuations in light. Its mission is to discover worlds orbiting ...

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A stronomers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to find hundreds of "anomalies" in data from the Hubble Telescope. More ...

ESA-built tool trawls nearly 10 crore Hubble image cutouts and flags more than 1,300 oddities in two and a half days, NASA ...

A Romana-British metal artwork of a panther is believed to show the severed head of a barbarian.

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It has only been about three years since I learned how to play mahjong, and I was trained by one of the most formidable players I know—my sister-in-law Ginny. She can literally empty my coin bank in ...

Artificial intelligence has just turned one of astronomy’s most familiar workhorses into a discovery engine all over again.

Autonomous vehicles have made remarkable progress over the past decade. Driverless cars and buses that once struggled to stay ...

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...