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Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

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I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our Butler night sky. As soon as it gets ...

Like many outlandish schemes before it, the idea for Howl came together over a beer. It was the summer of 2023 and the two of ...