Astrophysics

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel. Back in 1967, a…

Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new…

Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…

Dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that astronomers say constitutes roughly 85% of the universe’s mass, doesn’t interact…

Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…

Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting…

Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…

This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…

The team preparing to launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed a mission dress rehearsal on Thursday…

Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar…

About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and…

When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel: The discovery that still raises questions about scientific credit |