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The celestial body, dubbed ASKAP J1832- 0911, was initially found by astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometer Array ...

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Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists anywhere else besides Earth.

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It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have caught it at all.

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