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Earlier this year, many university departments slashed their incoming PhD classes in a last-minute scramble as the Trump ...

At the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, the CGSS runs a charity bake sale three times a year. For ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

As the government shutdown drags on, scientists and advocates remain focused on the long-term effects of proposed budget cuts ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Stev ...

When you look up on a clear dark night, the stars overhead shine and glitter like celestial diamonds scattered across a black ...

For 20 years, he taught “Introductory Astronomy” at Boulder as a way to provide the foundation for how college students ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

An astrophotographer snapped a stunning shot of Comet Lemmon's flowing tail getting shredded by a strong gust of solar wind, ...

Public scientific literacy in the Xizang autonomous region has risen sharply over the past 60 years, transforming from a very ...