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Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside “hundreds and hundreds” of stars above him every night. “(Space) was just ...

Celebrating the appointment of Professor Lloyd Knox, center, as the new Michael and Ester Vaida Endowed Chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics are, from left: Distinguished Professor Andreas Albrecht, ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

It seems like everyone wants a piece of Lu Lu’s research. Biologists. Physicians. Astronomers. Climatologists. Physicists. Chemists. Materials scientists. The federal government. Even the occasional ...

The article details the historical underrepresentation of women in astronomy, highlighting the significant contributions of numerous women despite facing systemic challenges such as limited access to ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...