The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists have…
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A version of this post originally appeared on June 11, 2025, in Eater and Punch’s newsletter Pre Shift, a biweekly…
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Few forms of media can still grab the general public’s lapels and say, “The world has changed in an important…
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An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to…
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In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at planetary nebula NGC 1514,…
Read More »Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two…
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Most people know the theory that an asteroid smashed into Earth — hitting what is now the Yucatán Peninsula —…
Read More »Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight…
Read More »The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi…
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