By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

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SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

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Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

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The observations were carried out by the Breakthrough Listen program as the object neared its closest approach to Earth on ...

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 ...