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Liftoff! NASA launches SPHEREx telescope — an infrared observatory that will help JWST solve the mysteries of the universeNASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest mysteries.
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The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itselfA new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought.
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'Einstein's equations need to be refined': Tweaks to general relativity could finally explain what lies at the heart of a black holeBlack hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of general relativity could finally do away with them, and explain what truly lies at the heart of a black hole.
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A cosmic 'CT scan' shows the universe is far more complex than expected"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs."
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'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claimThere's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests.
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yetScientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.
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James Webb telescope confirms we have no idea why the universe is growing the way it isAstronomers can't agree how fast our cosmos is expanding. A new James Webb Space Telescope study has made the crisis even worse.
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James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existedThe James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making them the earliest ever detected. And there could be many more.
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Astronomers spot 1 of the most powerful 'sonic booms' in the universe as massive galaxy crashes into its neighborsA shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." Astronomers hope the event will reveal vital secrets about the often-violent evolution of our universe.
