For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

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The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it ...

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 ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...

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TEHRAN--With a history spanning over 8,000 years, the Iranian civilization is recognized as one of the oldest and most ...

NASA’s IXPE mission has solved a long-standing mystery by revealing how black hole jets generate X-rays, using the longest ...

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Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special exhibit on its history.