Scientists Just Discovered ‘Quipu,’ the New Largest Structure in Our Cosmos
With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.
New Book Reveals Why We Need An Exoplanet Reality Check
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
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An Enormous, Branching String of Galaxy Clusters Is the Largest Known Structure in the Universe, Scientists Say
The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...
Supercomputer simulations of giant radio galaxy formation challenge current theoretical models
Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...
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Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen 'radiation belt' after last year's supercharged solar storm — and it's probably still there
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...
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How Humanity Will Colonize New Solar Systems!
Humanity’s greatest journey might not be to Mars, but to an entirely new solar system. Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri system, could be our next home. But how do we get there?