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July 29, 2019

A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

A model of the stars in the GD-1 stellar stream overlaid on data collected by the Gaia spacecraft. The color of each stat represents how strongly its orbit was affected by the unknown dark matter substructure of the galaxy. White represents a significant change from normal, while red represents almost no difference

June 13, 2019

Evidence for a Dark Matter Clump in the Milky Way, Sky & Telescope

Still-dissolving globular cluster Palomar 5 (white blob in center) with its 5°-long tidal tails, shown using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data

May 14, 2019

Evidence Mounts for a Magellanic Collision, Sky & Telescope

Image of Small Magellanic Cloud

March 13, 2019

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science, Quanta Magazine

Digital illustration of robot in front of a spiral galaxy

October 29, 2018

Habitable Exoplanets Are Likelier Around Lower Metallicity Stars, Forbes

NASA compilation showing how Earth-like planets have varying sizes and compositions

October 24, 2018

Pint-Size Planetary Systems Aren’t Into Heavy Metal

An illustration of a compact, multi-planet system

October 08, 2018

Suspected First Exomoon Comes Into Tantalizing Focus, Nature

An artist’s impression of the potential exomoon (blue) orbiting its planet

October 06, 2018

Scientists Find What Could Be a History-Making Moon, NPR

(Top row, from left) Titan, Earth's moon, Europa and Enceladus. (Bottom row, from left) Callisto, Charon, Ariel and lo