Space
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562Analysis Has Failed to Find a Dark Matter ‘Glow’ in The Milky Way’s Halo
Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...
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436Astronomers Have Caught This Pulsar Glitching For The Very First Time
After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called...
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504NASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on The Sun
The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes...
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578A Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is...
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559NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
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652TESS Data May Already Hold a Clue to The Mysterious Planet Nine
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of...
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443Light leaking from a distant galaxy hints at a cosmic makeover’s origins
A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted on the universe during its youth. Within about...
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485NASA Just Opened a Moon Dirt Sample Untouched Since The ’70s
For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up a sample of Moon matter collected during the...
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272The Most Advanced Space Telescope Ever Just Passed a Series of Crucial Tests
Rigorous testing is at the heart of any successful space mission. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a million miles...
