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Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem El Yajouri has officially joined NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

A highlight of Weinersmith’s visit was the balloon launch on the Quad, followed by a lecture based on the content of A City on Mars. The launch is tied to St. Kate’s recent collaboration with the ...

Aug. 12 (UPI) --Chile's the CiELO project is opening new frontiers in the study of how galaxies form and evolve, positioning the country as a leader in computational astrophysics in Latin America.

Einstein’s theory of relativity reveals a mind-bending truth – in the right conditions, time itself slows down. This isn’t ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA's 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, telescope toward the International Space Station, a UI graduate research ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?