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Are aliens receiving radio signals from Earth?

Posted on March 3, 2026February 26, 2026 by Ben Pauley

Scientists calculated the maximum distance at which extraterrestrials with modern human-level technology could detect radio signals from…

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    Technosignatures
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    These gases could signify intelligent life beyond Earth

    Posted on March 2, 2026February 26, 2026 by Aubrey Zerkle

    Astronomers proposed that the industrial gases nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride could provide measurable signs of advanced…

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      NASA’s Webb Uncovers Star Formation in Cluster’s Dusty Ribbons, NGC 346 (NIRCam)
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      JWST reveals properties of dusty star-forming galaxies

      Posted on February 26, 2026February 4, 2026 by Sciworthy

      Astronomers used new JWST data to unravel the structures of 22 dusty star-forming galaxies that previous telescopes couldn’t see.

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        Exoplanet GJ 1214b
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        The lifecycle of a steam world

        Posted on October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 by Ben Pauley

        Scientists studied exoplanets with high water contents and found that they initially have outer vapor layers, which then cool and shrink…

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          This rendering shows a snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha Blob similar to LAB-1. This simulation tracks the evolution of gas and dark matter using one of the latest models for galaxy formation running on the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. This view shows the distribution of gas within the dark matter halo, colour coded so that cold gas (mainly neutral hydrogen) appears red and hot gas appears white. Embedded at the centre of this system are two strongly star-forming galaxies, but these are surrounded by hot gas and many smaller satellite galaxies that appear as small red clumps of gas here. Lyman-alpha photons escape from the central galaxies and scatter off the cold gas associated with these satellites to give rise to an extended Lyman-alpha Blob.
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          Astronomers find distant galaxies with neural networks

          Posted on April 7, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

          Researchers developed a computer algorithm that correctly predicted the light emission characteristics of ancient faraway galaxies based on…

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            Searching for the first supernovae in the universe

            Posted on November 4, 2024June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

            Astronomers developed new theoretical models for how stars evolve that suggest the JWST could glimpse the oldest stars in the universe…

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              Astronomers discover new rare hot Neptunes

              Posted on August 26, 2024June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

              Scientists discovered 2 new examples of medium-sized, closely-orbiting exoplanets whose characteristics shed light on how planetary systems…

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