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Astronomy is no longer about what we can see. Here’s how we’re sensing the invisible universe.

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Data show that IU has dominated Korean pop for a decade

The super blue moon rises over Chinese signs reading "Beijing" atop a building in Beijing, China, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

COSMIC EAVESDROPPING

From the moon’s far side, a radio receiver will listen for ancient clues to the universe’s origin

An artist's rendition of the first stars

THE EARLY YEARS

Scientists found atoms that contain remnants of the dawn of the universe

BREAKING THE SILENCE

The suicide of a K-pop star is opening up a conversation on mental health in South Korea

The unlikely, meteoric rise of BTS, the biggest name in K-pop right now

Members of South Korean K-Pop band BIGBANG react on the backstage after winning Artist of the Year award in 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in Hong Kong, China December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip - RTX1WUVB

CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC

The return of Psy to China’s charts is the surest sign yet of a thaw between Seoul and Beijing

James Webb Space Telescope.

FUTURISTIC HISTORY LESSONS

An almost impossible engineering project lets us time travel to the start of the universe

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

WHAT ANTI-MATTERS

Scientists fired lasers at antimatter in an experiment that probes the deepest human question: why are we here?

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India’s growth has nothing to do with the “good fortune” of falling oil prices: Narendra Modi