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With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

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A team of astronomers used an "Earth-sized super telescope" to detect an object that emits no light, via gravitational ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...