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The James Webb Space Telescope is known for being able to see deep into space, providing scientists (and us) with some of the ...

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Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

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The fact that every second of every day, there are lots of supernovae happening in the universe, just not where we would see them. The avera ...

Relic Gravitons, by Massimo Giovannini of INFN Milan Bicocca, offers a timely and authoritative guide to one of the most ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...