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For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

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The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years. Researchers have developed an "axion quasiparticle ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

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The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years. Researchers have developed an "axion quasiparticle ...