A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and vastly different cosmic puzzles.
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The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years.
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Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster.
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Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every year.
A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star.
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A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a dark, airless, Mercury-like world.
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The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way’s Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the attention of local galaxies.
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Looking like a scene out of “Star Wars,” this image shows the ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) beaming four separate lasers into the sky towards the Tarantula Nebula.
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Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then.
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