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This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

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Somewhere in the Mojave Desert, a gleaming white dome sits in the middle of nowhere, and the story behind it is stranger than ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...