As a cold pour hits the glass at The Sycamore in the Mission District, chatter rises, lights dim slightly, and Astronomy on ...

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As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

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Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

People usually apply to graduate programs at research universities in Washington. But uncertain funding means there could be ...