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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 ...

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

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...

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 ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

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

“With this new machine-learning tool, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope can help scientists build a more accurate 3-D map ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

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

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