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The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

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

Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton is that kind of place – a celestial treasure perched above Silicon Valley that somehow remains off the radar for many Californians despite being one of the most ...

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive ...

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Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology ...

The images of Comet 3I/ATLAS were captured by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile on Aug. 27 as the icy ...