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Water-rich asteroids are thought to have brought water to countless other worlds throughout the universe.
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New mathematical models lend credence to the idea that we live in a universe that is essentially flat.
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Scientists have identified a huge void in space that measures over 1.8 billion light years across.
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Some scientists believe that the cosmos will eventually collapse in on itself in a 'Big Crunch' event.
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Cern's atom smasher is about to resume operations in an attempt to detect miniature black holes.
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Located at the center of a quasar, the object is more than two billion times more massive than our sun.
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Scientists have put forward a new theory suggesting that the universe may have never had a beginning.
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Two of the world's most powerful supercomputers have been used to build a simulation of the cosmos.
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The Czocha College of Witchcraft and Wizardry has been heavily inspired by the Harry Potter universe.
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Scientists have proposed that there is a universe parallel to our own in which time runs in reverse.
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Two astrophysicists have proposed that gamma ray bursts could halt the development of complex life forms.
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The mysterious dark energy that permeates the universe may be causing dark matter to evaporate.
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Physicists have put forward a new theory that ties quantum physics to the concept of parallel universes.
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Stephen Hawking has suggested that the Higgs particle has the potential to collapse space and time.
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An ancient orange star has revealed hints of one of the first stars to ever exist in the universe.
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Astronomers have identified a new cosmological mystery using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Scientists have promised a groundbreaking announcement pertaining to the birth of the universe.
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Recent studies have revealed that extrasolar planets are extremely abundant throughout the universe.
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One Harvard astronomer believes that we may have fundamentally misunderstood our place in the universe.
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Scientists have uncovered new evidence to support the idea that the universe isn't quite what it seems.