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One of Earth's nearest stars may be a dark matter factory
By Adam Mann published
A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties.
Dark matter 'annihilation' may be causing the Milky Way's center to glow
By Mara Johnson-Groh published
A new study suggests that annihilating dark matter particles may explain the Milky Way center's mysterious glow.
Astronomers find the 'safest place' to live in the Milky Way
By Mara Johnson-Groh published
Astronomers have searched the entire Milky Way to identify the safest places to live. It turns out, we're in a pretty good spot.
Jaw-dropping Milky Way mosaic took 12 years to create. Here's why.
By Stephanie Pappas published
A new mosaic of the Milky Way galaxy took 12 years and 1,250 hours of photographic exposure to create.
'Gravity portals' could morph dark matter into ordinary matter, astrophysicists propose
By Paul Sutter published
Astrophysicists have a wild idea to explain the bizarre abundance of super-high-energy radiation shooting from the center of our galaxy: gravity portals.
Could there be a cluster of antimatter stars orbiting our galaxy?
By Paul Sutter published
We don't know why the universe is dominated by matter over antimatter, but there could be entire stars, and maybe even galaxies, in the universe made of antimatter.
Extraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020
By Adam Mann published
Are we alone in the universe? Many discoveries about aliens in 2020 seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing.
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is closer to Earth than we thought
By Diane Lincoln published
The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought.
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