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The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

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A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

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 ...

Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected ...

The Physics and Astronomy Department has a machine shop to fabricate custom fixtures for experiments across campus.

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