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Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

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Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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As an extension of the REU program, students participate in several off-site field trips to learn about our environment and ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Learn about a cosmic project that will journey to the dark side of the moon in order to listen for the Universe's earliest echoes.

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Like many outlandish schemes before it, the idea for Howl came together over a beer. It was the summer of 2023 and the two of ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...