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A team led by a University of Maryland astronomer discovered big complex organic compounds in ices beyond the Milky Way for ...

Astronomers note that such comets are remnants of the early solar system, containing pristine material billions of years old.

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A chat with former Halo Wars creator James Miller about his new space 4X, which strikes a careful balance between realism and ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

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The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

The paper's "Less Terrifying" reference is in relation to a comment from sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke, who is said to have ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), an international ...