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But, most intriguing of all is the name Mara. Most likely, this refers to Mara Jade, one of the most famous of the Legends ...

The black hole, named RACS J0320-35, is about a billion times heavier than the Sun. It lies 12.8 billion light years from ...

NASA has recently transformed sound waves emanating from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster’s black hole into a format perceptible to ...

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Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

A new study from MIT suggests that the most powerful neutrino ever detected—the so-called “ghost particle” that barely ...

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Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

These alternate versions of classic DC and Marvel superheroes have greater power, more compelling motivations, and have saved more people than their mainline counterparts ever have. Having fought the ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...