The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided an unprecedented level of detail of the jet spewing from the supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87. A ...

Astronomers using JWST have captured the sharpest infrared view yet of the supermassive black hole jet in M87, offering new ...

UC Riverside has developed a technology that enables scientists to peer deeper into the universe. Gravitational-wave science ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...

As a professor in Caltech’s astronomy department for a decade, Mansi Kasliwal first came to the observatory as a graduate ...

Using the Open Exoplanet Catalog and NASA’s Eye on Exoplanets website provides new way to study Kepler’s and Newton’s laws ...

Astronomers have detected the faint cosmic background hum created by black holes colliding over billions of years, a landmark ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Erik Shirokoff, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and senior member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP), passed away on Thursday, January 26, ...