astrophysics

“Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyards specters, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, ...

Astronomers Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan, at the University of Rochester and the University of Washington respectively, published ...

The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there's something we're missing. Could it ...

For nearly 40 years, the phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" has resonated ...

Neutron stars – the dead stellar remnants of old, burned-out stars – are some of the most extreme ...

stronomy is entering an exciting new era of exploration.

Many scientists believe that anything sent into a black hole would probably be destroyed. But a new study ...

As an astrophysicist, I live and breathe science. Much of what I read and hear is couched in ...

If the Big Bang theory is just a "theory," are there other hypothetical explanations for the origin of ...

Could aliens be shrouded by dark matter and the event horizon of black holes? Astronomers understand particularly little ...

What's it like to lead a NASA project that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe? John Mather ...

Katherine Mack, astrophysicist at the University of Melbourne, answered questions posed by the public on Reddit from black ...

This model could solve the problem of the relationship between matter and mind, and provide a framework for ...

The conventional understanding of gravity just doesn't seem to fit with what we're learning about the cosmos and ...

We've never seen it, but we're pretty sure it's there, and as we learn more about it we ...

A team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced Monday that it has found evidence of the rapid ...

The supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy hasn’t been doing much. Similar black ...

A recently discovered super-Earth orbiting a nearby star may be at least one-third diamond.

New astrophysical research into understanding how light is affected by the expansion of space could help in planning ...