The head of NASA’s astrophysics division offered an upbeat assessment of upcoming missions, a stark contrast to the agency’s ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

Missions such as Galileo around Jupiter and Cassini around Saturn have discovered over the last three decades that the giant ...

"Explore the fascinating world of astrophysics and how galaxy rotation curves give us critical insight into dark matter! In this video, we’ll break down how the rotation speeds of stars and gas within ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer was developed as part of the astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the next competition for an astrophysics ...

Thirty-six rising high school seniors are spending five weeks studying near-Earth asteroids using the telescopes at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Sommers-Bausch Observatory. CU Boulder is ...

The development of ultra-intense lasers delivering the same power as the entire U.S. power grid has enabled the study of cosmic phenomena such as supernovae and black holes in earthbound laboratories.

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely ...

STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years ...