astronomy

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“In astronomy, or any other science, this would have caused a massive scandal. In aging science there was not even a shrug.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

"A year in orbit pushes both hardware and humans into a different operational regime compared with the shorter Shenzhou missions of the programme's earlier phases," the professor of physics and astronomy told AFP.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

"Gravitational-wave astronomy is now doing more than counting black hole mergers," explains lead author Dr. Fabio Antonini from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

After receiving an email Friday afternoon, Keivan Stassun, a professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University and director of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics, said he reached out to fellow board members.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton