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University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

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Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...