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Largest-Ever Cosmic Test Finds Gravity Falls With Distance as Theory Predicts

The team read tiny shifts in the universe’s oldest light to track how galaxy clusters pull on each other.

Study Confirms North Sea’s Silverpit Crater Was Made by an Asteroid, Triggering Ancient Mega-Tsunami

Oxford Study Finds Moon’s Magnetic Field Was Mostly Weak Through Its History

Google Rolls Out Major Upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, Opens Limited API Access

NASA Details Roman Telescope’s Milky Way Map and Dark Energy Void Surveys as Launch Prep Advances

Lensed-Quasar Study Confirms Hubble Tension With Independent, High-Precision Result

Astronomer Reports 20 GeV Gamma-Ray Halo Consistent With Dark Matter in Fermi Data

Study Reports Milky Way Gamma-Ray Halo Consistent With Dark-Matter Annihilation

MeerKAT Detects OH From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Milky Way Simulations Revive Dark-Matter Case for Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

Perseverance Sample Marks Most Convincing Candidate Biosignature on Mars, NASA Says

Perseverance Finds Potential Biosignatures in Ancient Martian Mudstone

JWST Rules Out CO2-Dominated Sky on TRAPPIST-1e

Study Finds Solar Flares Superheat Ions 6.5 Times More Than Electrons

130-Year Record Shows Planetary Nebula IC 418 Heating Faster Than Recent Models Predict

Parker Solar Probe Confirms Long-Standing Solar Reconnection Theory In Situ

Deep-Sea Cores Uncover Possible Cometary Debris at Younger Dryas Onset

New BAO Analysis Strengthens Local Void Solution to Hubble Tension

Doubts Deepen Over Potential Biosignature on Exoplanet K2-18b

New Candidate for Planet Nine Challenges Original Hypothesis