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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced on Wednesday that it has been chosen by NASA to launch its Aspera mission. Aspera is an astrophysics science mission designed to study the formation and ...

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UCSC has received a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support talented but financially needy students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in physics or astrophysics. The Alfred ...

Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has won the prestigious 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her path-breaking research focused on the invisible universe, including the nature of ...

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The MPA is the major German institution dedicated to theoretical and interpretational research in astrophysics and cosmology. Areas of interest include stellar astrophysics, computational astrophysics ...