This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that bio-important molecules such as sugars and ribose (a component of RNA, which is ...

Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 ...

Watching for changes in Mars' orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter, according to researchers.

(Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Jee (University of California, Davis), J. Hughes (Rutgers University), F. Menanteau (Rutgers University and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), C. Sifon (Leiden ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of ...

Watching for changes in Mars’ orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter, according to MIT researchers.

(Courtesy: MIT/NASA) The decay of dark matter could have played a crucial role in triggering the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe, according to a trio of astronomers ...

Physicists Create Heaviest Antimatter Nucleus Yet Antimatter is one of science's great mysteries. It is produced all around us for fractions of a second, until it collides with matter, and the ...

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Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks ...

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