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) ...

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 ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 118, No. 844 (June 2006), pp. 933-938 (6 pages) ABSTRACT In 2001, 836 papers appearing in 15 journals reported and/or analyzed data ...

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 ...

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 ...

In January 2017, we published the first issue of Nature Astronomy, a new journal for the astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science communities. Nature Astronomy was launched with the aim of ...

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 ...

The citations found at the end of research papers serve several purposes, like providing background on the current work and giving proper credit where it’s due. They can also, according to a new study ...

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 ...

Astronomy is becoming 'big science'. Although the transformation brings the experimental clout to answer the biggest questions, it also carries risks for the field's future. Astronomy is in an era of ...

With this issue, Astronomy celebrates its 50th anniversary. I bought the first issue of the magazine from a newsstand in Columbus, Ohio. While the stories eventually drew my interest, I was more ...

At the unexpected intersection of astronomy and animation is Rodney Levendosky, a senior majoring in animation and visual effects at New Mexico State University. His work with Astronomy ...