So dark matter is our frenemy. We have no clue what it is. It’s kind of annoying. But we desperately need it in our …

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Although the night sky often seems so peaceful and still, a closer look reveals constant movement and change. The …

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Harry and Sally. Tristan and Isolde. Chip and Dale. Iconic duos, each of them. But they ain’t got nothing on X9.

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Most galaxies in the universe have at least one thing in common: supermassive black holes tend to sit in their …

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Europe’s Gaia spacecraft has spotted a ‘bridge of stars’ between two dwarf galaxies. The bridge—a halo of …

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Between 2009 and 2013, the Kepler space telescope stared at a single patch of the sky, searching for exoplanets. …

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Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Arizona State University are developing the most …

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