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It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...

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New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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A mysterious glow at the center of our galaxy has astronomers scratching their heads. The phenomenon, recently analyzed in ...

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