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MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. A bright object that was observed in the skies over Russia’s capital Moscow on October 27 could be an asteroid, the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

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AI and digital technologies are transforming astronomy, accelerating discoveries and making science accessible to all.

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After India’s recent lunar south-pole win and high-profile missions, interest in space is rising nationwide in Tier 1, 2 and ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

They have been there for millennia, before the earth was born, taking light years to reach us. For all you know, that shining ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

But there is a strong push for Indian Knowledge Systems, as evident from the addition of courses on Kala Ganana (traditional Indian time keeping), Bharatiya Bijganit (Indian algebra), Shulva Sutra ...