Black holes that were far too large shortly after the Big Bang posed a puzzle for astronomy. Now, stars were discovered that ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

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At the UW, hundreds apply each year for the astronomy department’s graduate program, and a maximum of seven are accepted. But for the next year, they won’t be accepting any graduate students, due to ...

Low Earth orbit is filling up with industrial-scale fleets of satellites, and the collateral damage is becoming impossible to ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...

For more on 3I/ATLAS, Manesa Dhanabalan spoke with Laura Parker, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University.