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.

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

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

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

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

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

Florida actually hosted 145 total launches that year if including suborbital missions, low-altitude weather rockets, and ship and submarine-launched missiles, Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at ...

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

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

A University of Maryland astrophysicist was named Tuesday to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering, ...