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With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do something no ground-based observatory has done before: detect potential signs of life on a planet orbiting the closest star…

Often imagined as the crown jewel of future megastructures, a Dyson swarm—an orbiting fleet of solar collectors around the Sun—has long been considered a potential key to unlocking interstellar-scale energy. But a new scientific study…

In a discovery that brings a legendary quantum theory to life, physicists at Princeton University have directly observed Hofstadter’s butterfly — a fractal pattern in electron energy levels that was first predicted in 1976 but had never…

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For the first time in nearly a century, Earth’s night sky may soon be lit up by one of nature’s rarest celestial events: a nova visible to the unaided eye. At the heart of this cosmic countdown is the Blaze Star, or T Coronae Borealis—a…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is on a mission to explore dark energy. It maps millions of celestial objects to understand the universe’s accelerating expansion.

The DESI collaboration has now released its first major dataset,…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is on a mission to explore dark energy. It maps millions of celestial objects to understand the universe’s accelerating expansion.

The DESI collaboration has now released its first major dataset,…

In the scorching deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have discovered a curious feature in the rocks – thin, orderly tubes running through marble and limestone, possibly created by ancient microbes.

These structures don’t…