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NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.

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Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

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