An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen with a neutrino lens (blue). Astronomers are hailing a “new lens” they can use to observe the universe after the publishing of this new image (above) of ...

Artist's visualization of GRB 221009A showing the narrow relativistic jets — emerging from a central black hole — that gave rise to the GRB and the expanding remains of the original star ejected via ...

The biggest buzz in ground-based astronomy these days is the soon to be completed Rubin Observatory and its forthcoming wide field Large Synoptic Sky Survey. From a lonely mountaintop in northern ...

Future astronomical endeavors are projected to include the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), Origins Space Telescope, and Lynx X-ray observatory, focusing on exoplanet habitability, star and planet ...

Rapidly spinning white dwarfs, exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit due to their rotation, may be prevented from immediate collapse by their angular momentum. When accretion ceases, the white ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

To the casual reader, the story may sound like a far-out effort at science fiction. But the moon tale told by Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven amounts to much more than an imaginative voyage into the ...

Under the careful scrutiny of increasing numbers of scientists around the world, astronomy’s newest sensation—the pulsars—continued to beep away last week, confounding observers with the breathtaking ...

People usually apply to graduate programs at research universities in Washington. But uncertain funding means there could be ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...