When I think about space, the universe, and its vastness, I feel deep existential dread. We are but tiny blips. I have a lot of questions, and there isn’t an ask-an-astronomer hotline I can call, ...

If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear tha...

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This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.

America has long led in research. Budget cuts could jeopardize that dominance.

The White House has put forward a radical, wasteful proposal for NASA. We have the data to prove it.

The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

The Golden Trump Ego Age Marches On

Three strategies for public pressure in response are refusal, resistance and ridicule.

The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...

Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.

Dinosaurs, Carl Sagan, and nuclear war. There was a moment in the not-so-distant past when we learned what drove the dinosaurs extinct — and that discovery, made during the Cold War, may have helped s...

We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

The Astrophysical Sciences Project Office celebrates five years of success with its programs, including the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys.