I write today with sadness to share news of the passing of Frank Drake, UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and an eminent radio astronomer. Drake was known for pioneering ...

One of astronomy's burning mysteries is whether another Earth-like planet exists in far off stars. Bucknell University Professor Jackie Villadsen, physics & astronomy, is now contributing evidence ...

At the University of Oxford, researchers are studying how to make LLMs more diverse by broadening the human feedback that informs them. The researchers reviewed 95 academic papers and found that human ...

The associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware teaches a class called “Concepts of the Universe,” and although she knows that the title might sound daunting in its ...

A Harvard professor of astronomy is predicting extraterrestrials will make contact with artificial intelligence before humans, due to aliens potentially feeling a "kinship" with human technology ...

Rector is one of the founders of Astronomers for Planet Earth, an organization of over 2000 educators teaching people about climate change through astronomy.. This combination makes sense to ...