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Music of the Spheres

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Allison Dean explores how the ancient Greeks’ model of the structure of the universe still shapes our music.

Music of the Spheres

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Asteroid

‘Asteroid hunters’ search for space rocks that could collide with Earth

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Galaxies

Astronomers report there are 2 trillion galaxies in the ‘observable’ universe

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‘Law and the Multiverse’ Considers Superheroes, Legalities

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Does God exist? Can science really disprove that?

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Scientists are often depicted as skeptical of God — atheists who believe only what they can prove. But science writer Amir Aczel says science doesn’t actually disprove God, and there are at least a handful of scientific phenomena that suggest an outside force acted to create the universe.Scientists are often depicted as skeptical of God — atheists who believe only what they can prove. But science writer Amir Aczel says science doesn’t actually disprove God, and there are at least a handful of scientific phenomena that suggest an outside force acted to create the universe.

Planck satellite scientists release picture of early universe

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Scientists from the European Space Agency’s Planck Surveyor satellite have mapped cosmic imprints from the earliest moments in the universe. The findings help explain what the universe was like seconds after the Big Bang.

Deep space photos offer a panoramic view of the universe

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Last week, astronomers based in the Atacama desert in Chile released the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. The image reveals more than 200,000 galaxies and offers viewers a chance to look back in time to the early years of the universe.

Discovering dark matter

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We could be on the verge of solving one of the biggest cosmological mysteries in our time — the discovery of dark matter.

Have Scientists Finally Found Dark Matter?

Dark matter makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. But up until now, it’s eluded scientists. Yesterday, however, NASA announced a possible breakthrough. A particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected dark matter. The detector is called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and it measures cosmic ray […]

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