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On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Welcome to the age of precision cosmology, a scientific era in which astronomers and physicists have measured almost everything about our universe—except for its deepest mysteries: dark matter and ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

The mid-1990s gave us some truly strange pop culture moments, but even by that standard, the 1995 Super Bowl halftime show ...

Before working on Alien: Resurrection, filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet directed Ron Perlman in a truly visually extravagant sci-fi fantasy movie.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by dark matter ever seen. Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic ...

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