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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found complex organic molecules—carbon-based compounds that form ...

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