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Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

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The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

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Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...