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In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, there’s a lot to…
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A Neptunian planet has been found in what should be a ‘Neptunian Desert’ by telescopes…
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Scientists from Ireland and France today announced a major new finding about how matter behaves…
New research from Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet shows that viruses interact with proteins in…
This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University…
About 400 million years ago, vertebrates first began to crawl from the primordial seas onto…
Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near…
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NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an…
The ultimate degree of control for engineering would be the ability to create and manipulate…
A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA’s Chandra…
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry,…