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Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...
There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...
A new generation of stargazers are exploring how their ancestors used the night sky to thrive and survive in the Australian landscape.
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...
Around 1,000 scientists are attending the Royal Astronomical Society's (RAS) annual National Astronomy Meeting 2025 (NAM) ...