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Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

In a discovery that astronomers are calling a “truly extraordinary” find, a powerful "space laser" mega-beam has been ...