The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) is a Medium-class Explorer mission that will conduct an all-sky ultraviolet survey. Credit: Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA has selected four mission concepts for additional ...

NASA funded four concept studies for flagship missions for the astrophysics decadal survey. The survey recommended NASA first pursue a large space telescope that would be a hybrid of HabEx (upper ...

A breakthrough astrophysics code, named Octo-Tiger, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to ...

Time is relative, but some of us still don't have enough of it to fully take in the most salient aspects of such topics as dark matter, exoplanets, the Big Bang, and why so many objects in outer space ...

Humanity is intricately linked to the stars. They literally gave us life; we are the dust of these cosmic beasts. But more than that, human civilization has been greatly influenced by the motions and ...

Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Astronomical and Astrophysical observations have entered an era where the data collected by telescopes are undergoing dramatic ...

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 ...

Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Chi Nguyen was selected for a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Research. Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, is a Ph.D. student ...

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 ...