This evening’s viewing challenge is the planet Mercury. It is less than half a fist above the west-northwestern horizon at ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

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"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

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The John Henry Rowe Endowed Scholarship is a tribute to the remarkable career and enduring legacy of John Henry Rowe. This ...

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JOHANNESBURG - Wits University played host to this year’s South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) Conference the country’s biggest annual gathering of experts in physics and astronomy. The event ...