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The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spectacular 'super bubble' in our Milky Way's nearest neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud. Check out our space photo of the day. On a morning train commute, ...

On Aug. 15, 1977, astronomers using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope detected the famous "Wow!" signal, which remains unexplained to this day. Astronomers may have already scanned ...

The Perseid meteor shower begins on July 17 alongside two others, making "shooting stars" likely any night this month and ...

Using the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, scientists may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter, in the form of a rare ...

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A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after overfeeding on companion stars indicates that dark energy is changing over time. Using the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, ...

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