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Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
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Known physics suggests the early universe should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Nearly all of it annihilated into radiation, but roughly one extra matter particle survived for every billion pairs—and why that tiny imbalance existed remains one of physics’ deepest unsolved problems.
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A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
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The Universe Changed Its Mind About Expansion
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Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn
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Astronomers Spotted a 'Bear' on Mars
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Scientists Detect a Mysterious Signal That Could Be Dark Matter
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