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An oddball galaxy found to have no dark matter

Americanastronomershaveidentifiedagalaxythatappearstohavealmostnodarkmatter,previouslythoughtafoundationuponwhichgalaxiesarebuilt.InastudypublishedonWednesdayin

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Astronomers detect signal from earliest stars in the universe

Astronomershavedetectedasignalfromthefirststarsastheyappearedandilluminatedtheuniverse,inobservationsthathavebeenhailedas“revolutionary”.Thefaintradiosignalssug

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"Monkey King" makes China world leader in dark matter detection

China'sdarkmatterdetectionsatellite,"Wukong"(MonkeyKing),hasdemonstratedit'sthemostpowerfulspaceprobeforhigh-energycosmicrays.Ithasthehighestenergyresolutionand

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Chinese satellite closes in on dark matter mystery

Scientistshavedetectedcosmicrayenergyreadingsthatcouldbringthemclosertoprovingtheexistenceofdarkmatter,amysterioussubstancebelievedtocompriseaquarterofouruniver

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New computer models could direct scientists to epic cosmic events

Nowthatthey'respottinggravitationalwavesmoreoften,scientistsareexpandingtheirsearchforcosmicevents.Specifically,they'reusingnewcomputermodelstodepictthecataclys

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New map of Universe's dark matter

ResearchershavereleasedthemostaccuratemapeverproducedofthedarkmatterinourUniverse.Theteamsurveyedmorethan26milliongalaxiesinthelargeststudyofitskind.Themapwillh

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Moment of most intense cosmic explosion captured by int'l team

Aninternationalteamofastronomershassuccessfullyobservedagamma-rayburstinunprecedenteddetaillikeneverbefore,accordingtoresearchersfromtheUniversityofMaryland.Aso

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Scientists unveil doubly-charmed new particle

EuropeanscientistssaidThursdaytheyhavediscoveredanewsubatomicparticlecontaininganever-before-seencombinationofquarks--themostbasicbuildingblocksofmatter.Thepart

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Three scientists share 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

​The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics is being shared by three scientists, the Royal Academy of Sciences announced here Tuesday.

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China expanding capacity of dark matter detector

Chinese scientists are expanding the capacity of an underground facility designed to detect elusive dark matter particles. Scientists are still searching for evidence to prove the existence of the hypothetical dark matter, an invisible substance thought to account for over a quarter of the universe's mass-energy balance.

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China launches satellite to shed light on invisible dark matter

China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter, invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe's mass.

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Australian research finds first direct evidence of pulsar transformation

An international team of astronomers using CSIRO radio telescopes and other ground and space-based instruments has caught a small star called a pulsar undergoing a radical transformation, described on Thursday in the journal Nature, a latest research statement form Australia's national science agency CSIRO showed.