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In a Universe that's more than 13 billion years old and home to hundreds of billions of stars, one question still haunts humanity: Why haven't we found life beyond Earth?

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A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, ...

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"When it goes online in 2029, the new Canberra dish will be the last of six parabolic dishes constructed under NASA's Deep ...

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

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Known as the "Oscars of Science," the Saturday night event saw Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman rubbing shoulders ...

Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist and a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum ...