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A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

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The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...