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Dark Matter May Be Older Than the Big Bang
A new mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the Big Bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly. Researchers believe…
Deep-Rooted Plumbing System Uncovered Beneath Ocean Volcanoes
New Snake Research Yields Insights on Reptile Evolution
Perfectly Sideways Galaxy Spied by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
MIT Automates Artificial Intelligence for Medical Decision-Making
Classic Mars Image From NASA’s Mariner 6 and 7
Hubble Discovers an Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
Study Shows Heart Cells’ Environment a Major Factor in Heart Disease
TESS Discovers Habitable Zone Planet in GJ 357 System
NASA’s TESS Mission Discovers Three New Worlds
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds — one slightly larger than Earth and two of a…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy Orientated Directly Edge-On To Us
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But…
NASA Releases New Images to Celebrate Chandra’s 20th Anniversary
On July 23, 1999, the Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In the two decades that…
Embryo-Inspired Bandage Uses Body Heat to Speed Healing
Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures — there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve…
Noteworthy Discoveries From TESS Mission’s First Year
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern…
Einstein’s General Relativity Theory Beginning to Fray at the Edges
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez,…
Water in Polar Moon Craters Not as Invincible as Expected
The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it’s unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has…
Scientists Update HITRAN to Help Model Exoplanet Atmospheres
All atoms and molecules emit distinctive spectral lines across the spectrum, the details of which depend on the internal structures of the species (for example,…
Astronomers Pit Einstein Against Newton to Determine the Mass of KOI-3278
A team of astronomers led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have updated and confirmed self-lensing binary star KOI-3278’s companion to be a white dwarf…