NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

The AXIS mission, led by MIT, progresses in NASA's Probe Explorers competition, set to unveil cosmic mysteries.

Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysics. Jean-Louis Tassoul synthesizes a large number of ...

Through the study of astrophysics, researchers learn about the origin, structure, evolution, and ecology of the universe and its constituents. By combining astrophysics and elementary particle physics ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory ...