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The universe didn’t start with water. No cosmic waterfalls, no space puddles—just an endless expanse of hydrogen, helium, and a lonely dash of lithium. But then came the first stars, massive and short-lived, detonating in supernova tantrums. And in their fiery deaths,...
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Iván Venzor was eating dinner in Monterrey, Mexico, when he helped spot a new planet. Not with a high-tech space agency, but with a telescope sitting a few meters away in his backyard. A flicker of starlight, barely perceptible—and just like that, he might’ve found a...Recent News
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