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Unraveling a Mystery Surrounding Cosmic Matter

UC Riverside physicist and colleague invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe

New Models Describe the Behavior of the Cometary Dust Trails and Their Shape

On May, researchers from an international research group from Finland, Canada, and Russia, publicized findings about the dust trail of the comet 17P/Holmes, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Dust Plumes Observed Being ‘Pushed’ into Interstellar Space by Intense Starlight

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter.

Signs of CO2 in a Planet Beyond Our Solar System

Showing how precise it can be, the James Webb Space Telescope detects the first definitive carbon dioxide signature in an exoplanet atmosphere.

An Extrasolar World Covered in Water?

With the help of instruments designed partly in Canada, a team of Université de Montréal astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water.

Halos and Dark Matter: A Recipe for Discovery

No, scientists still don’t know what dark matter is. But MSU scientists helped uncover new physics while looking for it.

Ghostly ‘Mirror World’ Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy

New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem.

Unraveling a Mystery Surrounding Cosmic Matter

Early in its history, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with equal amounts of matter and “antimatter”

No Trace of Dark Matter Halos

Signs of disturbance in the dwarf galaxies of one of Earth’s nearest galaxy clusters indicate an alternative gravity theory

Scientists Reveal Distribution of Dark Matter Around Galaxies 12 Billion Years Ago--Further Back in Time Than Ever Before

One of Nagoya University’s leading research centers has made another groundbreaking discovery, looking back into parts of space further than ever before.

Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon

A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests

Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon

A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.

Study: Astronomers Risk Misinterpreting Planetary Signals in JWST Data

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

MIT’s MOXIE Experiment Reliably Produces Oxygen on Mars

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.

SU(N) Matter Is About 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space

Universe’s coldest fermions open portal to high-symmetry quantum realm

Comet Impacts Formed Continents When Solar System Entered Galactic Arms

New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth’s early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning traditional thinking about our planet’s formation on its head.

Study: Explosive Volcanic Eruption Produced Rare Mineral on Mars

Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover

Supernova Remnant Is Source of Extreme Cosmic Particles

Astronomers have long sought the launch sites for some of the highest energy protons in our galaxy.