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BBC News
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Astronomers probing the distant Universe have found the building blocks of spiral galaxies like our Milky Way.
They discovered ancient galaxies, about one-tenth the size of the Milky Way, which were among the first to form in the Universe.
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BBC News
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Moons like the Earth's - which are formed in catastrophic collisions - are extremely rare in the Universe, a study by US astronomers suggests.
The Moon was created when an object as big as the planet Mars smacked into the Earth billions of years ago...
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Physorg
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University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.” While earlier studies h..
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MSNBC
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Empires may rise and civilizations and ecosystems may crumble in the billions of years to come, but matter as we know it will endure, according to a new study eyeing the future of the universe.
The universe's ceaseless expansion, accelerated by the sti..
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Physorg
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Physicists have devised a theory that unifies two widely studied mysteries of the universe: why there is an imbalance between regular matter and anti-matter (scientists expect to see equal amounts of each, but observe less anti-matter), and the identity o..
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Physorg
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Professor John Lattanzio from Monash's School of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics said the confusion surrounding the Big Bang revolved around the amount of the gas Helium 3 in the universe...
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BBC News
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A Nasa space telescope is about to launch on a mission to explore the Universe with "gamma-ray glasses".
The Glast mission will shed light on some of the most violent events in the Universe, that release massive amounts of energy in the form of gamma-r..
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BBC News
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A Nasa space probe measuring the oldest light in the Universe has found that cosmic neutrinos made up 10% of matter shortly after the Big Bang.
Five years of study data also shows that the first stars took over half a billion years to light up the Univ..
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BBC News
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The first stars to appear in the Universe may have been powered by dark matter, according to US scientists.
Normal stars are powered by nuclear fusion reactions, where hydrogen atoms meld to form heavier helium.
But when the Universe was still young..
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BBC News
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The US and European space agencies are to co-operate on two missions considered vital for efforts to create a new understanding of the Universe.
Agency chiefs signed official agreements outlining the partnership in a ceremony at the Paris Air Show...
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BBC News
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Astronomers have found one of the best pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, a mysterious quantity that pervades our Universe.
They have identified what appears to be a ghostly ring in the sky which is made up of this enigmatic substance..
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New York Times
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Three days after learning that he won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot was talking about the universe. Sitting across from him in his office at the University of California, Berkeley, was Saul Perlmutter, a fellow cosmologist and a probable f..
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New York Times
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The price of exploring inner space went up today. At a news conference in Beijing an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of what they believe will be the Next Big Thing in physics: a machine 20 miles long that will..
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Space.com
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Scientists now have evidence that dark energy has been around for most of the universe's history...
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