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Shri Kulkarni, an Indian-born astrophysicist from Maharashtra, has shaped modern astronomy while emerging from a family of ...

Now, Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech, has been awarded the Gold ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...