"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

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With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.

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Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond our solar system. An "audacious" leap that might change how we see our ...

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Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.