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If someone told you they found the most haunted place on Earth and it’s in Texas, you’d probably expect it to be in some remote location that requires a four-wheel drive and a questionable sense of ...

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The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more natural source. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!

For more than 50 years, people around the world have reported a low-frequency hum. It was unique to coastal U.K. cities at first, but spread throughout the world. Theories suggest it could be factory ...

If, in space, no one can hear you scream, it seems that you can actually hear the sound of a crash when two black holes collide. Using the loudest gravitational wave ever heard, two Australian ...

If you’ve ever burst out in a fit of laughter from a friend’s off-the-cuff joke, you know it just feels different compared to a typical chuckle. New research argues that the same is definitely true ...

There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains completely unknown. Known as “long-period radio transients" (LPTs), these ...