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Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the Kentucky sky. What to know ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015. This discovery marked the culmination of a 100-year ...

The University of Pennsylvania's Bo Zhen and postdoctoral researcher Li He developed a system for guiding light through tiny ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

As the nights grow chillier, there is still time for Colorado stargazers to observe a meteor shower and other celestial ...

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Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...