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NASA/Handout/Getty Images 9 Super Awful Things Going to Space Does to the Human Body
NASA has spent decades documenting the weird parts because the weird parts are the most interesting, but they can also be dangerous.
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All About Space/ Contributor/Getty Images Astronomers Found an Impossibly Hot Object Near the Big Bang
Astronomers found a galaxy cluster so hot and so mature that, according to existing cosmological models, it shouldn’t exist at all.
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NASA/Stringer/Getty Images Astronomers Just Found a Galaxy That Never Formed. Here’s What They Learned.
Astronomers might have found the closest thing yet to a galaxy that, like your slacker sibling, simply refused to grow up.
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3I/ATLAS Scientists Searched 3I/ATLAS for Signs of Aliens. Did They Find Anything?
Scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for a wide range of radio frequencies for over five hours. What they found is exactly what we expected.
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Family Lifestyle/Getty Images A Mouse Just Had Babies After Going to Space. Here’s Why That Matters More Than You Think.
For scientists studying whether life can continue beyond Earth, that birth answers a question bigger than the moment itself.
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