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View of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy, taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, in this handout image released August 29, 2022. Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Dark matter may be hiding in a fifth dimension: Study

The scientists, from Spain and Germany, say the current standard model of physics cannot explain everything we see in the universe

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Chinese astronauts stranded in space after suspected debris strike

A researcher holds a human brain, part of a collection of more than 3,000 brains at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel, Belgium, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Scientists unveil first draft of atlas of the developing brain

James D Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston May 31, 2007. REUTERS/Richard Carson (UNITED STATES)/File Photo

James D Watson: The genius behind DNA's double helix and the controversy that overshadowed it

An artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding to pieces a massive star at least 30 times the mass of the sun. Photo: Caltech

Astronomers observe black hole flare brighter than 10 trillion suns

Artist's impression shows a star, with a mass at least 30 times the mass of the sun, being shredded in a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event after it strayed too close to a supermassive black hole, with a mass roughly 300 million times that of the sun, in a galaxy located more than 11 billion light-years from Earth, in this image released on November 4, 2025. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)/Handout via REUTERS

Star-eating black hole unleashes record-setting energetic flare

The skeleton of a teenage boy died in 14th century in Edinburgh. Photo: Collected

First evidence of Black Death found in Edinburgh skeleton

Photo: Nasa

From Apollo to Artemis: Nasa’s bid to rekindle lunar exploration

In this undated photo provided by NASA on Tuesday, 1 March, 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly looks out the cupola of the International Space Station. Photo: AP/UNB

ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit

JAXA said the HTV-X1 spacecraft lifted off smoothly atop the No. 7 H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Photo: UNB/AP

Japan successfully launches new cargo spacecraft to supply ISS

Microscopic bacteria, mirrrored. Image: NIAID

What is mirror life? Experts are raising red flags

A bird sits on a branch in front of a partial solar eclipse near Bridgwater, in southwestern England, March 20, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

Study shows how solar eclipse made some birds sing like a new day dawned

Photo: Collected

World’s first pig-to-human liver transplant gives scientists new hope