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Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill.

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