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Sifting through the noise of space is no easy task, even for astrophysicists. But a new grant from the National Science ...

At the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Meredith Rawls makes sure reflected sunlight doesn’t ruin astronomical observations by the ...

The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

A collaboration involving a Rutgers University-New Brunswick cosmologist, along with hundreds of other researchers and dozens of institutions, is exploring the nature of dark energy, a mysterious ...

A quick and engaging overview of Earth Science, the multidisciplinary field that studies our planet and its place in the universe. Earth Science is divided into three main areas of study: astronomy, ...

Penn State astronomers are using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with theoretical models, to ...

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