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If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

A groundbreaking survey in Nature Astronomy reveals a surprising consensus among scientists: the majority believe that alien ...

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The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

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