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A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

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A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

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It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

Scientists used the world's largest single-dish radio telescope to scan comet 3I/ATLAS for signs of extraterrestrial life, but found no artificial radio emissions.