Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. These transient phenomena ...

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang W. W. Norton (2018) A poignant moment of professional soul-searching sets the scene in US ...

What are the key scientific challenges for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade? Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s identifies the most compelling science goals ...

The discovery on stars of coronae and of X-ray emission from flares in the 1970' s opened up the investigation of stellar activity. Solar-stellar astrophysics has now become a two-way street. The rich ...

PASADENA – Astronomers and astrophysicists will finally have a home together on the Caltech campus with the official opening Monday of a $50-million building on California Boulevard. Photo Gallery: ...

The Numerical Astrophysics Facility emphasizes theoretical and numerical studies of stars, star clusters, the early universe, galaxy distributions, cosmology modeling, and gravitational lensing. The ...

The Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the Universe in which we live through observations, theory, and the development of ground-based ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have been unraveling the secrets of the far-flung universe for more than a century, but starting in 2018-19, undergraduates will be able to formally declare a ...

Artificial intelligence, a form of intelligence present in machines rather than animals, has paved the way to a new reformed field of astrophysics. With artificial intelligence, analysis of the most ...