The experimental chatbot ChatGPT is having a moment. Developed with artificial-intelligence techniques by the Silicon Valley research institute OpenAI and trained on a massive database of written text ...

In Astronomy’s March 2010 issue, I shared insight into five of the biggest questions facing astronomy today. But that was just an arbitrary list, and there are plenty more cosmic conundrums scientists ...

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It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed ...

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What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of ...

Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are some questions that have curdled the brains of hominids ever since they developed the ...

Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is underway. The annual event normally held the last Saturday and Sunday in January, spanning both wings of the museum has moved online ...

Mitsumi Fujishita, a professor at Tokai University in Kumamoto City, conducted a study to assess students’ basic knowledge of astronomy, asking nine questions about things like in which direction the ...