It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed ...

In Astronomy’s March 2010 issue, I shared insight into five of the biggest questions facing astronomy today. But that was just an arbitrary list, and there are plenty more cosmic conundrums scientists ...

The experimental chatbot ChatGPT is having a moment. Developed with artificial-intelligence techniques by the Silicon Valley research institute OpenAI and trained on a massive database of written text ...

What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of ...

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