In this video, a nuclear engineer reacts to the Kurzgesagt video "Astronomy is in Crisis and It's Exciting," providing insight into the challenges faced by the field of astronomy. The video discusses ...

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The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, passing near the Earth, will be at the minimum distance from the planet on Friday, December ...

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Stanford engineers debuted a new framework introducing computational tools and self-reflective AI assistants, potentially ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Scientists themselves might benefit from reading Scientific American! In the July/August 2025 issue, there are two Advances ...

I/ATLAS is a comet with a bright coma and visible tail, typical of interstellar objects. It made its closest approach to the ...