Kavli IPMU researchers are part of an international team that has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

The KU Physics & Astronomy Department chair, Christopher Fischer, sent an email to department students Friday afternoon that ...

Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of ... At the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, participants of the rapid response workshop on the gravitational wave background explored ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...

The graduate PhD program in Physics & Astronomy is a small, personal, yet challenging environment where graduate students will receive advanced instruction and guidance to grow as independent research ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

This National Astronomy Week, we celebrate all their fascinating work in space research. Our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) is a hub for researchers looking into the formation and evolution ...