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Dark Energy Camera Snaps First Images Ahead of Survey
The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly...
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Orbiter Spots ‘Dry Ice’ Snowflakes Falling on Mars
A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body...
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What Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe?
The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People...
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Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form...
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Cameras to Focus on Dark Energy
A pair of detectors that measure minute distortions in images of distant galaxies will probe the riddle of cosmic...
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How Did Mars Lose its Atmosphere?
Mars wasn’t always the Red Planet. Eons ago, it is possible that Mars was as lush as Earth is...
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Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers
Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according...
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Cosmic Lithium in the Early Universe
Astrophysicists have explored a discrepancy between the amount of lithium predicted by the standard models of elemental production during...
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The Quantum World Only Partially Melts
Every day we observe systems thermalizing: Ice cubes in a pot of hot water will melt and will never...
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Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Alters Einstein Field Equations
A pair of mathematicians have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein’s equations...