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Merger Partners? Maybe.

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Simulated image of two merging black holes, viewed face-on. LIGO has announced the detection of ten of these events from its...

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Forces Unleashed

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Forces Unleashed

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NASA Satellite Data Show 30 Percent Drop In Air Pollution Over Northeast U.S.

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The left image in the slider shows the average...

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New Images Reveal Fine Threads of Million-Degree Plasma Woven Throughout the Sun’s Atmosphere

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Highest-ever resolution images of the Sun from NASA.

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In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf

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This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object that is at least 13 times...

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Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniform

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Cosmic expansion measured across the sky.

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Black Hole Bends Light Back on Itself

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This illustration shows how some of the light coming from a disk around a black...

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New “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures

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A new “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures. The technique may enable...

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