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On March 19th, 2025 starting at 7:30 p.m., the Moe Visiting Lectureship has Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein stepping on stage in Alumni Hall to give some words of experience, wisdom, and encouragement to ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

It wasn't just an event for astronomy fans: on Friday night, the moon turned blood red for several minutes. In Chile, the ...

There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

BL Lacertae blazar shifts between classifications faster than expected. It shows record X-ray activity and challenges current ...

This place just made TIME's list of World's Greatest Places of 2025 and Newsweek's 10 best science museums in the U.S. Here's ...