An Asteroid Bigger Than the Empire State Building Will Pass Earth Soon. But Don't Worry.

No, it will not hit us.

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Why Is There So Much Oil in the Arctic?

Beneath the Arctic lie billions of barrels of oil. But as the international energy race intensifies, we wonder, how did all that oil get there in the first place?

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John Dillinger's Corpse to Be Dug Up and DNA-Tested to Settle Conspiracy Theory

The men who shot Dillinger may not have shot Dillinger, the gangster's relatives now say.

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Scientists Find a Boiling, Toxic Wasteland of an Exoplanet, and It's Shaped Liked a Football

This first-of-its-kind discovery reveals a new category of ultrahot exoplanet, one so thoroughly cooked that your cast-iron skillet would bubble, turn to gas and boil out of the atmosphere.

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Mysterious Connecticut 'Vampire' Finally Identified 200 Years After Burial

The unfortunate man was likely a poor farmer who died of tuberculosis.

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Who Was Jesus?

His story is perhaps the most famous on Earth, yet we know relatively little about Jesus, the man.

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If Aliens Are Flashing Laser Beams at Us, We Now Have a Way to Detect Them

Are aliens using super powerful flashlights to get our attention? Astronomers think there's a chance they are.

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