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European Space Agency's Euclid telescope picks up two quasars dating back to a time when the Universe was just 670 million ...

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A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave talks about why wolves are thriving in California, a new estimation of the world's insect species and the universe's earliest quasars.

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Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

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A Catholic nun made a startling assertion about UFOs, cautioning that purported alien encounters are in fact a menacing ...