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Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

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Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

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Some of today's coolest technologies - ranging from DNA analysis to the personal computer and the space shuttle - were built upon foundations laid during the 1980s. The '80s also marked the start of ...

In a book to be published this October, physicist Paul Halpern will explain how to build and use a cosmic wormhole as an interstellar shortcut to distant parts of the universe, or to travel backward ...