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The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Using data from NASA’s TESS mission, scientists can estimate the size (radius) of potential planets orbiting distant stars. However, to verify that these objects are truly planets and not low-mass ...

Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Our planet’s fate has been sealed in the stars: in about five billion years, Earth will be engulfed by the sun, ending all ...

For more than 25 years, scientists have believed that the universe is expanding faster and faster, pushed apart by a ...