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A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
This summer, before this week's announcement of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus, planetary scientist Sara Seager and co-authors published a speculative sketch of what life on Venus could look like. And it's beautiful.
It’s one of the most remarkable achievements of science of all: that we can go back billions of years in time and understand when and how our Universe, as we know it, came to be this way.
Two ways to measure the age of the universe give different answers. The discrepancy is large enough that some cosmologists — scientists studying the history and makeup of the universe as a whole — are suggesting the field is in crisis.
The star in the constellation of Orion has been visibly dimming since late 2019, and now stands at just 36% of its normal brightness. Astronomers are talking about the chance of the star becoming a supernova.
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The history of our Universe is written in the skies. Examining ancient signals from the dawn of time, radio astronomers can reconstruct the evolution of the Universe.
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