Right now, somewhere above our heads, missions are being planned that could redefine humanity's place in space. The decisions being made today about where to send our next wave of spacecraft and ...

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A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable tool in astronomy, helping to manage the immense amounts of data generated by modern telescopes. AI models can analyze these datasets far more ...

Einstein’s greatest theory validated on a galactic scale Scientific American: A team of astrophysicists recently published research on the behavior of two distant galaxies. Stacy McGaugh, professor of ...

Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze ...