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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

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Imagine for just a moment that there is some other civilization out there in the universe, looking out at us radiantly, as we are. What would they perceive? All of our bustling metropolises glow from ...

Astrophysicist Jack Burns of the University of Colorado Boulder described the moment as the "dawn of radio astronomy from the moon." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...