Two University of Arizona faculty members have been awarded prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships: Award-winning playwright ...

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

In general, anything larger than 13 times the mass of Jupiter has been deemed a brown dwarf, as these objects should be able ...

T he giant planets of the Solar System have complex interiors that have been difficult to pin down. Inside Uranus and Neptune ...

A recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has provided the most accurate measurement of the universe’s expansion rate, a discovery that not only refines our understanding of cosmology but ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

The center of our galaxy is an extreme place. Surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, stars are packed ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

The City of Cape Town’s Graduate Internship Programme is helping turn academic talent into citywide impact, with the ...

Radio astronomy covers five orders of magnitude in wavelength (300 mm to 30 m) and provides unique as well as complementary windows on the origins of the universe, galaxies, stars, and planets. Radio ...