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A physicist's task is to constantly create equations that keep up with our observations of physical phenomena.

Three giant flying space rocks – called 2012 DK31, 2006 BE55 and 2021 QW – are flying past Earth, with one asteroid coming as close as just 2.2million miles to us

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A specialized laboratory at JPL, designed to eliminate the chemical influence of modern organisms, allows scientists to investigate the chemistry that may have given rise to life. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Origins and Habitability Lab, you can fin…

The discovery of giant superclusters of galaxies are challenging our very understanding of the Universe.

A pair of Martian rocks have hitched their fortunes to the Perseverance rover.

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Astronomers have determined that so-called "leaky" galaxies may have responsible for triggering the last great transformational epoch in our universe, one which ionized the neutral interstellar gas.

A new JPL- and Caltech-developed detector could transform how quantum computers, located thousands of miles apart, exchange huge quantities of quantum data.

When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru, they thought it was a newly discovered species. Instead, the bird is a hybrid that resulted from two pink-throated species.

The proposed solution isn't perfect but could help buy us some time, researchers say.

Webb captured the galaxy in the act of hosting a supernova.