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Scientists have discovered bacteria linked to aggressive prostate cancer in work hailed as a potential revolution for the prevention and treatment of the most deadly form of the disease.Researchers led by the University of East Anglia…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos. But this luminous blue star is long gone, so…

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="ALMAThe Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest…

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Most Universe Today readers are familiar with nebulae. They're gaseous structures lit up with radiation from nearby stars, and they're some of nature's most beautiful forms.With the help of amateur astronomers who laid the groundwork,…

An Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from the Guiana Space Center on Christmas Day, boosting the James Webb Space Telescope toward space. Image: ESA A powerful European Ariane 5 rocket boosted NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope into…

Is there life beyond our solar system? A team of international astronomers has taken one step closer to answering this time-old question.New research published on Tuesday has uncovered what could be an important clue in understanding if…

A team of astronomers, including Harvard affiliates, have captured the first-ever image of a black hole’s polarized emission — which offers insight into its magnetic fields — according to an article published in the Astrophysical Journal…

In September 2020, David Campbell, principal technical officer of astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire in England, found a discarded Kopparberg cider can atop one of the telescopes at the university’s Bayfordbury Observatory. It…

But on the clear Tuesday evening of March 13, 1781, as 42-year-old William Herschel hunkered down at the eyepiece of his 6.2-inch Newtonian reflector, he saw something he did not expect. Between 10 and 11 o’clock, “while I was examining…