Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

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

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

Now, Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the highest honor bestowed by the ...

How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions ...

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