Space

  1. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A cosmic collision heard ‘round the world, plus Saturn storms, black hole drains and more in this week’s news.

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  2. Space

    Dark Matter meeting

    The latest science reveals few new answers on dark matter, but scientists hope for more from the Large Hadron Collider.

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  3. Astronomy

    Stellar oddballs

    Kepler spacecraft finds much more than exoplanets.

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  4. Space

    Milky Way may get an extension

    A newly discovered feature at its fringes suggests the galaxy is an uncommon beauty: One half appears to be nearly a mirror image of the other.

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  5. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Liquid water possible on Earthlike planet, plus black-hole atoms, Io’s magma ocean and more in this week’s news.

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  6. Space

    Crab Nebula activity keeps confounding

    Unusually rapid fluctuations in the output of a supernova remnant send theorists scuttling for a reasonable explanation.

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  7. Physics

    American Physical Society meeting

    Gas sheds light on dark matter, plus cosmic ray clusters and blue-light imaging in the news.

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  8. Astronomy

    Supermassive black hole rises and shines

    Astronomers may have witnessed the activation of a dormant supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.

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  9. Space

    Gravity Probe B finally pays off

    A half century in the making, an orbiting experiment finally confirms Einstein's general relativity.

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  10. Space

    Signs of dark matter from Minnesota mine

    An underground experiment in the U.S. bolsters the case that Earth plows through a halo of dark matter particles.

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  11. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A world record for atom smashing, plus black hole threesomes, a volcanic Mars and more in this week’s news.

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  12. Space

    Rumors of a Higgs discovery are just that

    Speculation suggests that a long-sought particle may be at hand, but most physicists remain skeptical.

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