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The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over US$5 million at an auction of rare geological and archeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research.

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows.

The Canadian government’s top scientist has released a new report on unidentified flying objects. The report recommends the creation of a new federal body to standardize, collect and investigate UFO reports.

CoreWeave plans to spend up to US$6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data centre in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by Donald Trump.

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog said Tuesday it has launched a criminal investigation into an AI-generated porn scandal at the city’s oldest university, after a student was accused of creating lewd images of his female classmates and teachers.

A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close Tuesday with a Pacific splashdown.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost planet.

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centres for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.

The Facebook post shows a photo of a pretty curly-haired girl on a tricycle and says she is Hannelore Kaufmann, 13-year-old from Berlin who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But there is no such Holocaust victim and the photo is not real, but generated by AI.

The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into.

For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: US$2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

When Janean Compton received a pair of text messages this week claiming she had a speeding ticket, her first reaction was to wonder if they were legitimate.

Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset that many believed would push VR into the mainstream.