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Federal funding cuts threaten Ohio universities' research programs, risking millions in lost grants and weakening research ...

Patna: In a move aimed at enhancing scientific engagement and promoting astronomy education, deputy CM Samrat Choudhary on Saturday announced that an .

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Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

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Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...