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Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...

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Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

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L. Butaud for Astronomy Uncorked. It’s November. The days are getting shorter and colder. We just turned back our clocks. But what is this thing we call time, anyways? How long is a day? Why has NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope The astronomy world rejoiced on 25 December ... but gravitational waves—"ripples" in space-time—too. Many of these results will be showcased in a symposium ...

There has never been a more exciting time to study the exciting discipline of physics, spanning the workings of the sub-atomic world to the ever-expanding universe. The BS Physics Program in the ...