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New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles ...
Dark money turns Alabama attorney general race into a million-dollar mystery
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New NASA telescope will record 100,000 cosmic blasts, including stars that killed themselves 10 billion years ago
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope of NASA will go into operation in 2027 and will detect exploding stars in the ancient universe, going as far as 10 billion years. This means it will record the ...
The handshake in orbit that made the International Space Station possible
In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...
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One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 ...
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Milky Way’s hidden neighbors revealed
They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...
There may be “dark main sequence” stars at the galactic center
The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...
The Milky Way May Be Surrounded by 100 Hidden Galaxies
Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.