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A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

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The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

The universe has always seemed like a grand, unstoppable machine. From theories such as the Big Crunch to the long, cold ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...