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The bizarre galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse collection of stars, gas and dust that is apparently devoid of dark matter.

January 26, 2019 Science

Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough

Much as a ripple in a pond reveals a thrown stone, the existence of the mysterious stuff known as dark

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January 21, 2019 Science

Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be

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January 19, 2019 Science

Geothermal Heating Could Make Life Possible on the Super Earth Planet at Barnard’s Star

In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard’s star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field of galaxies. A new study of the star formation activity in 179 of the galaxies in this image including many dating from about six billion years ago confirms an earlier puzzling result: lower mass galaxies tend to make stars at a rate slightly slower than expected.

January 18, 2019 Science

Making stars when the universe was half its age

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the

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An artist's rendering of the quasar J043947.08+163415.7, the brightest known quasar with the luminosity of 600 trillion Suns

January 15, 2019 Science

Brightest quasar ever found shines with the intensity of 600 trillion Suns

From our point of view here on Earth, the brightest object in the sky is unquestionably the Sun. But this

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Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.

January 11, 2019 Science

Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or

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This artist's impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. The elongated spot depicts an X-ray-bright region in the disk, which allows the spin of the black hole to be estimated.

January 10, 2019 Science

X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center

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The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a) and companion galaxy (M51b). This Hubble Space Telescope image represents a merger between two galaxies similar in mass to the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

January 4, 2019 Science

Catastrophic galactic collision could send Solar System flying into space

New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky

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January 3, 2019 Science

Scientists Find the ‘Missing’ Dark Matter from the Early Universe

Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time. Most galaxies that existed 10 billion

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An artist's impression of Ultima Thule, which is already turning out to be quite mysterious before New Horizons even arrives

December 27, 2018 Science

NASA’s New Horizons probe seems to be approaching a surprisingly “dark” world

NASA’s New Horizons probe is just days away from its historic flyby of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object on the

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Black holes may not have singularities at their center. Instead, the matter they suck in may be spit out across the universe at some time in the future, a new theory suggests.

December 20, 2018 Science

Matter Sucked in by Black Holes May Travel into the Future, Get Spit Back Out

Black holes are among the most mysterious places in the universe; locations where the very fabric of space and time

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DNA sugars may form in the interstellar medium, which is seeded with vital molecules from nebulae

December 20, 2018 Science

NASA experiment shows DNA sugars could be floating around in space

So far, Earth is the only place in the universe that we know for sure is home to life, but

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