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Researchers find evidence of largest-ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings
A similar solar storm today would be catastrophic for modern technological society

Funding for next-generation telescopes to capture light from the Big Bang and search for gravitational waves announced
National Science Foundation and Dept. of Energy address the biggest question in astrophysics

Possible new chemical combinations for the origin of life in distant inhabited planets
A "cookbook" with recipes for potential planetary conditions of life on other planets

James Webb Space Telescope discovers organic molecules around newborn star
A smorgasbord of complex organic and other molecules

Astronomers solve the 60-year mystery of quasars, the most powerful objects in the Universe
Quasars are powerful beacons to the history and future of the Universe

You are about to get a coded message from ET. Can you decode it?
This is only a test...

Astronomers observe dying star engulfing a planet in real time
A front seat to our fate in about five billion years