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In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

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The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

China has achieved a significant milestone in the development of its Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), also known as ...

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Even with two incomes, Charity Pallum said she and her husband would not be able to afford child care for their 1-year-old twins. But because of federal child care subsidies, both Pallum, a teacher, ...