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Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

UC Riverside has developed a technology that enables scientists to peer deeper into the universe. Gravitational-wave science ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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Missions to the moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food poses ...

A student-led experiment compares bacterial protein synthesis on Earth and in the ISS under microgravity conditions.

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NASA lunar scientist Dr. OJ Tucker explains how space weather affects Earth's moon. Credit: NASA Producers: Jessica Wilde, ...

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