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Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
"When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset."
How do normal matter and dark matter separate by so much when galaxy clusters collide? Astronomers find the surprising, unexpected answer.
We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.
Galaxies don't simply feed their central supermassive black holes, but the activity generated inside affects the entire galaxy and more.
With so many early galaxies of unexpectedly large brightnesses, JWST surprised us all. Here's how scientists made sense of what we see.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn's moons might tell a different story.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
We can do so much more, so much faster, with the same data. When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data […]
Could this finally be the clue we’ve hoped for in uncovering the truth about dark matter? In the physical sciences, theory and observation are supposed to work hand-in-hand. Theorists work out […]
Just because something’s unlikely doesn’t mean that anything’s wrong. In our quest to understand the Universe, theoretical physics is perhaps the most powerful tool we have as far as making […]
It’s one of cosmology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The strongest argument against it may have just evaporated. The ultimate goal of cosmology contains the greatest ambition of any scientific field: to […]