Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

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Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

Thomas Deer and David Moses, the creators of the immensely successful Celestial Bear show, worked together again on ...

The BS Physics Program in the School of Physics and Astronomy offers a comprehensive curriculum that provides a solid foundation in experimental, computational, and theoretical physics, emphasizing ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...

Princeton’s list in physics and astronomy encompasses a wide spectrum of fields and genres, including trade titles, monographs, and textbooks on topics ranging from the quantum to the cosmic. Over our ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. By Dennis Overbye Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around ...