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 ...

A survey of exploding stars shows that the farther away they are, the slower they seem to blow apart, as predicted on the basis of general relativity. The supernovae studied are known as type 1a ...

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 ...

Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to seek to understand the universe and our place in it. The field explores topics such as the birth, life and ...

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

Physics professors Brian Koberlein and David Meisel take a “back-of-the-envelope” approach to astrophysics and computation in a textbook designed for undergraduate students. Koberlein, senior lecturer ...

One afternoon in early 1994 a couple of astronomers sitting in an air-conditioned computer room at an observatory head­quarters in the coastal town of La Serena, Chile, got to talking. Nicholas ...