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11 wimpy galaxies are beating up our brightest explanation yet for a deep, dark cosmic mystery

Timothy Brandt, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, wrote the study after he too…

Dave Mosher   


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Scientists have just created the best map ever of one of the most mysterious substances in the cosmos

To create the map to the right, astronomers used one of the world's most powerful digital cameras p…

Kelly Dickerson   


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The most detailed map yet of all dark matter in the universe reveals cosmic voids where the laws of physics seem not to apply

By imaging 226 million galaxies, astronomers have created the largest map ever of dark matter, whic…

Aylin Woodward   


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Something punched through a stream of stars and it could help solve a bunch of mysteries about dark matter

Dark matter is what physicists believe holds galaxies together and makes up a quarter of everything…

Lindsay Dodgson   


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5 ways the world's most controversial telescope could revolutionize astronomy

Once the hot soup of particles generated by the big bang started to cool, they clustered into atoms…

Kelly Dickerson   


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Leading Harvard physicist has a radical new theory for why humans exist

It's this similarity between the rate of mass extinction rates and the rate of our solar system's o…

Jessica Orwig   


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A new simulation reveals what dark matter might look like if we could see it: massive halos surrounding every galaxy in the universe

A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions …

Susie Neilson   


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NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to observe dar…

Kate Duffy   


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Most of the universe may be trapped inside of ancient black holes

Astronomers call this material "dark matter." They know it's out there because its huge mass tugs o…

Dave Mosher   


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Scientists have made the largest map of galaxies ever - and it will shine light on one of the darkest mysteries of the universe

A slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Sur…

Ali Sundermier   


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Here's A Hypnotizing New Image Of A Mysterious Ancient Star Cluster

The blob of stars hold some mystery to astronomers still. While studying the cluster with Hubble in…

Jennifer Welsh   


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Astronomers discovered a new component of the Milky Way galaxy that they never expected to find

"All of the 35 classical Cepheids discovered are less than 100 million years old," Dante Minniti, w…

Jessica Orwig   


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The Hubble telescope captured a stunning photo of the distant spiral galaxy named 'Eye of the Serpent'

The world's most powerful space telescope captured an image of the NGC 2835 galaxy, known as "Eye o…

Aylin Woodward   


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Scientists found 63 ancient cosmic objects that could shine a light on 'one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy'

These "dark ages" of the universe lasted for hundreds of millions of years until finally, the hydro…

Ali Sundermier   


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This Stunning Video Maps Our Vast Universe

The region known as the Great Attractor exerts an unusually strong gravitational pull over the bodi…

Robert Ferris   


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Here's What We Know About Dark Matter

One theory, which based on today's findings is less likely, is that "dark matter" might not be dark…

Jennifer Welsh   


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Here's what the world's most powerful physics lab will be looking for when it turns back on

Such was the case during the LHC's first run from 2009 through 2012, and now, after two years of he…

Jessica Orwig   


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Astronomers may now fully understand why the sky is dark at night

Astronomers previously estimated that the observable universe contains about 100 billion galaxies b…

Dave Mosher