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Extraterrestrial civilizations could tell us whether human life will last millions of years, or jus…

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But we now know the observable universe is finite - it's about 90.68 billion light-years wide - and…

The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into the mysterious hearts of galaxies. Most recently, it…

Researchers used data from retired missions to map the distribution of cold clouds of dust in four …

But Ford's team didn't want to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the galaxy based solely…

In order to study objects in different wavelengths, astronomers convert the non-visible parts of th…

The blast, which is 2 trillion times brighter than the sun, may have been caused by a supermassive …

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"Think of a streetlight on a foggy night - you see the diffuse glow because light is scattering off…

The galaxy could re-write what we know about how dark matter shaped the early universe.