The combination of the elliptical orbit, affecting the speed of the planet, and the axial tilt, causing the length of ...

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

AXIS (left) and PRIMA are two mission concepts NASA selected for further study as the first probe-class astrophysics mission. WASHINGTON — NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the ...

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 ...

Apply physical laws to the working of the cosmos, and work in the largest laboratory there is: the universe itself. Through the study of astrophysics, researchers learn about the origin, structure, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team models the atmospheres of distant planets using neural networks. Researchers from LMU, the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and the ...

The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the problem ...

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 heavens declare the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ. The 27 huge dishes of the Very Large Array radio telescope were lined up on interconnected tracks, stretching for miles across the ...