‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets

How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now, researchers

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Nov. 15, 2023 ~6 min

Latest Gaia data release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor has

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Oct. 10, 2023 ~10 min


Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door

Researchers have found a new way to measure dark energy – the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the universe and is responsible for its

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Aug. 14, 2023 ~5 min

Mission to map the dark Universe sets off on space journey

A European mission to explore how gravity, dark energy and dark matter shaped the evolution of the Universe soared into space today from Cape Canaveral.

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July 1, 2023 ~3 min

Scientists have new tool to estimate how much water might be hidden beneath a planet’s surface

In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather than flowing

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March 15, 2023 ~5 min

Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe

Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which will

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March 8, 2023 ~5 min

Astronomers use ‘little hurricanes’ to weigh and date planets around young stars

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for smaller

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Jan. 6, 2023 ~6 min

UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.

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Dec. 12, 2022 ~6 min


Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

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Dec. 9, 2022 ~6 min

Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were – and weren’t – like

Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the

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Nov. 28, 2022 ~7 min

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