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Stars lost to history

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...
This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...
Following a sentencing in the Johnson County Courthouse Monday morning, former University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy ...
How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...
Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...
When winter sets in, and daylight is gone well before dinner, it’s hard not to notice how long the nights stretch on. For me, ...
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11 Peruvian Sites That Rival Machu Picchu

Peru is often defined by the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, but the country holds far more archaeological treasures than ...
While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...
A passing daydream sparked what would become the newest artwork displayed inside the 129-year-old University of Illinois Observatory.
The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...
Across a year determined to see how far it could stretch the sanity of its most devoted otakus, these are the anime that actually justified the suffering ...
A team of astronomers from Northwestern University has managed to capture the direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a binary ...