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Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain

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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why

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Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe

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Dark radiation may fix our broken understanding of the universe

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Mystery of neutrino masses may be explained by dark matter force

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Mystery of neutrino masses may be explained by dark matter force

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Dark DNA: The missing matter at the heart of nature

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We have found traces of the universe's first ever stars

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We have found traces of the universe's first ever stars

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A visualization of a supercomputer simulation of merging black holes sending out gravitational waves

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Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves

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There could be entire stars and planets made out of dark matter

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There could be entire stars and planets made out of dark matter

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Dark matter near black holes sends gamma rays from galaxy's core

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Mystery dark matter may be ordinary neutrons that have decayed

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Mystery dark matter may be ordinary neutrons that have decayed

Dark matter makes up a lot of the universe, but we still don’t know what it is. Could it be neutrons decaying into strange particles that shun normal matter?

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Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter

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Dark energy is mutating, with grave consequences for the cosmos

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The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong

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We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist

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