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Are Aliens Real? Science Focus Survey Reveals 87% Of Experts Believe Life Is Out There

Are aliens real? A Nature Astronomy study reveals 87% of experts believe life exists. Explore how 3I/ATLAS and AI are accelerating the search for E.T.

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James Webb Space Telescope could illuminate dark matter in a way scientists didn't realize

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

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NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video)

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust

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James Webb telescope makes first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b.

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Is the US forfeiting its Red Planet leadership to China's Mars Sample Return plan?

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure the US does not cede leadership in deep space to other nations, such as China."

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James Webb telescope spots 'groundbreaking' molecule in scorching clouds of giant 'hell planet'

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in any planetary atmosphere to date.

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Astronomers discover giant 'bridge' in space that could finally solve a violent galactic mystery

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from our own.

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Twinkling star reveals the shocking secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighbourhood

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood.

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You’ve heard of the Big Bang. Now astronomers have discovered the Big Wheel – here’s why it’s significant

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to reach us. We’ve dubbed it the Big Wheel, with our findings published today in Nature Astronomy.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots record-breaking collection of stars in far-flung galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

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Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

New research on WASP-107b reveals how strange this planet's atmosphere is, experiencing perpetual night on one side

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New measurements reveal the enormous halos that shroud all galaxies in the universe

Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to the universe. But if you’re wrong, you’ve just wasted a lot of money and time.

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This supermassive black hole is the most distant ever seen in X-rays

How did supermassive black holes form? JWST and Chandra may have found the answer.

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NASA's Juno probe detects organic compounds on huge Jupiter moon Ganymede

NASA's Juno spacecraft detected organic compounds and mineral salts on the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, hinting at a salty subsurface ocean.

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Weird dark spot on Neptune may have a bright spot buddy

A puzzling bright smudge was captured clinging to this dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere.

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James Webb telescope discovers the 4 oldest galaxies in the universe, born just 300 million years after the Big Bang

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the four oldest galaxies in the known universe, which are forming stars much faster than thought possible.

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Brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected defies explanation

Scientists are taking a closer look at the afterglow left by the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, and what they see doesn't fit with any theoretical models.

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For the first time, astronomers have linked a mysterious fast radio burst with gravitational waves

We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs.

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107 years on, we are still testing Einstein’s theory of gravity — the results are getting weird

Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy, has now tested Einstein’s theory on the largest of scales. We believe our approach may one day help resolve some of the biggest mysteries in cosmology, and the results hint that the theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked on this…

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Largest impact crater on Mars in past 16 years sends seismic waves around Red Planet

Seismic waves were sent rippling around the Red Planet when a large meteorite slammed into the surface last year.

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New study suggests Mars once hosted life — but the results reveal a worrying fate

A new model published in 'Nature Astronomy' suggests that if methanogenic microbes evolved on Mars, they would have caused out-of-control cooling and an Ice Age.

The Hindu

No Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle

A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the centre of our galaxy dubbed the “Fermi bubbles”, has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012.

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Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle

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Dust Giant: Hubble Finds Planet Almost 12,000 Times Bigger Than Earth Slowly Forming

NASA's Hubble space telescope recorded the new planet, called AB Aurigae b.

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Raman Research Institute refutes 2018 claim of discovery of cosmic dawn signal

The excitement over 2018 claims of discovery of light from the universe’s first stars (cosmic dawn) seems to have hit a roadblock in Bengaluru. City-based Raman Research Institute on Monday claimed their experiments have refuted claims by Arizona State University (ASU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that they discovered…

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