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One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

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Citizen scientists working with NASA have helped identify more than 3,000 brown dwarfs—dim, elusive objects that sit between ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...