Astrophysics

University of Arizona researchers are using the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to locate the optical counterparts to gravitational waves triggered by massive mergersCredit: Michael Lundquist The race is…

Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the…

Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to…

New telescope network to rapidly follow up on the changing night skyCredit: SOAR / Bruno Quint Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars -- these are all examples of objects in the night…

New research from astronomers at the University of Washington uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory to model not the planets themselves, but how the coming James Webb Space Telescope might detect and…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Astronomers have uncovered a new way of searching for life in the cosmos. Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their…

Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe -- and the extraordinary things that happen to it -- a Yale-led team of astronomers took a deep dive into the cosmic fog. They learned…

Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic place. Waves of comets, asteroids and even proto-planets streamed toward the inner solar system,…

The two academics have longstanding ties with Kazan Federal University Sunyaev, Starobinsky and Viatcheslav Mukhanov share the prize for "their outstanding contributions to the physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team/STScI How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The science behind galaxy formation has remained a puzzle for decades, but a…