The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor reports the first space mission led by the U-M Department of Astronomy is scheduled ...

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We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing ... Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's ...

Did you know that a cat went to space before many humans did? In 1963, Félicette, a stray cat from France, became the first ...

An international team of engineers and space scientists has used a variety of assumptions, techniques, and math principles to calculate the energy requirements for using moon dust to create rocket ...

Cheyenne’s Marcy Curran, the cofounder of the Cheyenne Astronomy Society and an editor of a major astronomy publication, has ...

STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry—and will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying ...

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Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

Fifth-year Yale astronomy doctoral candidate Emma Louden GRD ’26 co-authored an illustrated children’s story to inspire the ...