The gender imbalance that has existed for years in astronomy research and publishing worsened when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down labs and sent scientists home. Prior to the pandemic, female ...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the first telescope to see light from a planet outside our solar system. Launched in 2003, Spitzer contained ...

UC Santa Cruz is the top-ranking university in the country for the quality of its research in astronomy and astrophysics, according to a new analysis of papers published in scientific journals and how ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down labs and sent scientists home to work, female astronomers on average published about nine papers for every 10 published by men — a rate that has ...

Various studies have shown that when the pandemic shut down universities in early 2020, academics hunkered down and pushed out more papers. A new study shows this to be the case within the field of ...

It's time for the Arab Muslim world to reclaim its lost tradition of astronomical learning, one prominent researcher says. Building a new generation of observatories would spark interest in ...

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