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"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

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SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have committed private funding to four ambitious ...