Scientists peer at distant epoch
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Scientists see a galaxy whose light would have set out some 12.8 billion years ago.
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Astronomers have yet to find an Earth-size planet beyond our solar system, but that hasn&#39;t stopped them from modeling what these worlds might look like.
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Quorum sensing, which determines when bacteria communicate to one another, has captured the interest of a new generation of scientific researchers.
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Scientists who have peered through space to a time when light first filled the universe urged NASA (news - web sites) on Thursday to ensure a Hubble Space
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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Miles away from humans in the middle of squirrel country sits a piece of equipment that may lead scientists to the origins of the universe.
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Astronomers said the work was another steppingstone in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
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British physicists work on "clockwork" technology that promises, theoretically, billion-year accuracy.
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Astronomers find a strange new world that has them pondering again the essential properties of a planet.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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Two old stars appear to be gearing up for a second generation of planet formation, a phenomenon astronomers say they have never seen before.
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It seems hard to imagine, but the Internet was still a wild frontier just a decade ago.  But at a leading industry conference of the time a group of seers offered some remarkably prescient predictions of what was to come.
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Astronomers say they have found some of the earliest galaxies, which will help to piece together the history of the early universe. Some suspect galaxies took longer to form than previously thought. By John Gartner.
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Astronomers using a giant telescope say  they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest --  galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to  the origins of the universe.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.