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A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath ...

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Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 changes in the sky during just a single observation session.