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A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

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An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Scientists have detected complex organic ices around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first such discovery beyond the Milky Way ...

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Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

A recent study investigates the radical mundanity principle of the Fermi paradox to understand why evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations remains elusive.

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