An international team of astronomers reported in a study Wednesday that the second generation model of Starlink satellites is ...

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Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, the highly competitive grant will establish the ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

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Photographs of the Dolphin Head Nebula and a multicolored Earth are among the winners of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich's ...

Two new artificial intelligence institutions within the National Science Foundation will be dedicated to developing AI ...

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Oklahoma City is now home to the highest-caliber planetarium in the United States, according to the Science Museum Oklahoma.

The two new centers will be called the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, abbreviated NSF-Simons CosmicAI, and the ...

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A photon traveling through the curved space-time near a black hole isn't so much pulled as falls into the the black hole.