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Check out some of the new images NASA missions have captured of comet 3I/ATLAS as it makes its way across the Solar System.

Learn how faults beneath the Earth’s surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates.

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm forests on Rapa Nui.

A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle.

Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole. 

Learn how researchers traced chemical evidence of early life in ancient rocks and found signs of photosynthesis nearly a billion years earlier than expected.

Learn more about how scientists uncovered an unlikely community of arachnids in Europe’s Sulfur Cave and why these spiders usually don’t live together.

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient symbolism.

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.