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Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory project

By Annika Hammerschlag, Associated Press

Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office stating that their position was terminated.

By Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden and Indian Prime Minister Modi visit the National Science Foundation in Alexandria

Jill Biden and India's Modi visit National Science Foundation

The first lady typically takes the spouse of a visiting leader on an outing in the Washington area, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi was traveling alone.

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

This image, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract — a mere pinprick — of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. Photo provided by DECaPS2/ DOE/ FNAL/ DECam/ CTIO/ NOIRLab/ NSF/ AURA

Galactic photo shoot captures over 3 billion stars

A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. Results were released this week.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

WATCH: Senate Appropriations Committee holds hearing on National Science Foundation funding

The Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing on the National Science Foundation funding on Tuesday.

By News Desk

WATCH: What does a black hole look like? Scientists reveal the first picture

By Nsikan Akpan

The Event Horizon Telescope is expected to release the first image of a black hole on Wednesday. In preparation for what might be a momentous day, here’s what you need to know.

What is a blazar? Its high-energy flares could unlock the foundations of the universe

By Amanda Grennell

How 300 scientists in 12 countries across four continents detected one of the universe's most elusive particles.

Neutron star collision offers new source of gravitational waves

By Rashmi Shivni

Astronomers have discovered a collision of neutron stars that released both a stream of gravitational waves and a flash of light, backing one of Einstein's theories.