Following March 2020's closure of many universities and research facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the publication of astronomy papers has increased by 13%, according to a new analysis.

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 ...

Mind the gap: A study found that women published 8.9 papers for every 10 published by men before the COVID-19 pandemic, but this has now dropped to 8.8 papers (courtesy: iStock_FOTOGRAFIA-INC) ...

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 by two former UC Berkeley postdocs shows ...

On Sept. 16, 1982, now-Editor David J. Eicher began working at Astronomy. He’s been with the magazine — working pretty much every job — 41 out of its 50 years.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

Astronomy enters its digital age Our podcast on science and technology. This week, the second of two episodes behind the scenes at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. Jul 2nd 2025 | 1 min read.

A collaboration between astronomers at Harvard University and The Australian National University is leveraging GPT-4 in a different way. Seeking to use LLMs to accelerate astronomy research, the group ...

The NANOGrav team simultaneously published four studies in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, as well as two additional papers on the preprint server arXiv.org, detailing the collection and ...

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The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is an international "centre of excellence" in astronomical science and technology based in Perth, Western Australia, launched in ...