Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery surrounding a giant structure once believed to rise from the center of the Milky ...

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere ...

A quasar — among the universe’s most luminous and energetic objects — is a supermassive black hole caught in the act of guzzling matter at the ​heart of a galaxy. Scientists have now found quasars ...

Launching Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will investigate dark matter, dark energy and distant worlds while ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs in astrophysics could reshape our understanding of the universe in the next decade. Observations of gravity waves could prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or tip physics on ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer was developed as part of the astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the next competition for an astrophysics ...

Thought to make up 85% of matter in the universe, dark matter is nonluminous and its nature is not well understood. While normal matter absorbs, reflects, and emits light, dark matter cannot be seen ...

NASA says both the House and Senate funding levels for WFIRST in their respective spending bills would allow the mission to continue, but the lower amount in the Senate bill could force the mission to ...

For six days in June, high school students from New Mexico, North Carolina and Minnesota were part of the first ever astrophysics summer camp at the University of Minnesota Morris. The Kapemni ...

The Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 ancient quasars, including the earliest known, raising new questions about black ...