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 ...

The findings suggest that while massive black holes are not required to explain observed data, the presence of intermediate-mass black holes remains entirely plausible.

Solar filaments are vast clouds of relatively cool plasma, often stretching across enormous distances, held aloft by complex magnetic fields.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Astrophysics has always fascinated me because it is the branch of science that deals with subjects that straddle scientific reality and science fiction. What is the origin of the universe? Is time ...