NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy ...

Kurt Juarez is an undergraduate researcher pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on robotics through ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and ...

The AXIS mission, led by MIT, progresses in NASA's Probe Explorers competition, set to unveil cosmic mysteries.

Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysics. Jean-Louis Tassoul synthesizes a large number of ...

Through the study of astrophysics, researchers learn about the origin, structure, evolution, and ecology of the universe and its constituents. By combining astrophysics and elementary particle physics ...