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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note: There is a special note to teachers at the bottom of this post. If you’re a teacher, please be sure to check it out! The questions asked in Part 4 are: 1) Is there another planet past Pluto or ...

Space has fascinated humanity for centuries – from the mystery of the stars to the groundbreaking discoveries that push the boundaries of our understanding. Whether you’re an armchair astronomer or a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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