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Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most distant star ever observed, with light dating back nearly to the beginning ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Sri Lankan American scientist vows to empower ‘brilliant minds’ at the elite Pasadena university amid research funding cuts ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL (University ...