Today’s astronomers don’t really look at stars or galaxies so much as images produced from data generated by light. If that same data were used to produce 3-D printouts, tactile displays or sound, ...

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To differentiate real photographs and videos from AI-generated copycats, researchers are turning toward an unexpected field: astronomy. According to findings shared at the Royal Astronomical Society’s ...

Mirrors to the soul: In just a few years, contemporary generative AI systems have come a long way in creating realistic-looking humans. Eyes and hands are its most significant stumbling blocks. Still, ...

An artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Solar Orbiter: ESA/ATG medialab; Parker Solar Probe: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL The sun may be our closest star but it has managed to keep ...

She recalls her mother lying alongside her, telling her to look out her window into the night sky because her guardian angel was there. And as she searched for this elusive guardian angel, what she ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...

Tailored algorithms will help filter a coming flood of astronomical observations, helping scientists make new discoveries about the universe. In deserts across Australia and South Africa, astronomers ...

Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of the long-elusive gravitational waves ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...