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Discoveries & Research
Close encounters between distant DNA regions cause bursts of gene activity
Researchers at Kyushu University have revealed how spatial distance between specific regions of DNA is linked to bursts of gene…
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Astronomers witness the in situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies
An international team of researchers including The University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe…
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SETI tracks signal distortions of distant pulsars with data from destroyed Arecibo Observatory
You can knock a good telescope out, but you can’t keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio…
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James Webb Space Telescope ‘pushed to its limits’ to see most distant galaxies ever
The James Webb Space Telescope has potentially smashed one of its own records again —- if scientists are correct, this…
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A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort…
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NASA’s Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial component onto…
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Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io?
The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may…
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Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day…
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope sees streams of gas cross in distant galaxy cluster (image)
Criss-crossing streams of superheated gas create a “chaotic landscape” in a distant galaxy cluster. NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope detected two…
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Mapping distant planets: ‘Ridges’, ‘deserts’ and ‘savannahs’
A new ‘map’ of distant planets has been unveiled by scientists from The University of Warwick, which finds a ridge…
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