After 20 years, NASA’s Wind spacecraft is still going strong and helping scientists understand the…
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Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that applies the laws of physics and mathematics to understand the nature, behavior, and origins of celestial objects and the universe itself. It investigates the physical processes governing stars, planets, galaxies, black holes, dark matter, and dark energy—seeking to explain how cosmic structures form, evolve, and interact. Through observations across the electromagnetic spectrum and data from powerful telescopes and space observatories, astrophysics explores phenomena such as stellar evolution, cosmic radiation, gravitational waves, and the expansion of the universe. This field lies at the heart of modern space science, connecting fundamental physics with the mysteries of the cosmos.
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a study of active star-forming galaxies,…
Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is…
Using Chandra data, researchers were able to accurately determine the mass and other properties of…
New data show that the shock wave that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing in…
Scientists from the Imperial College London have used data, rather than calculations related to general…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected…
A team of astronomers has just completed the most extensive polarization survey of stars to…
This new Chandra image shows NGC 2207 and IC 2163, which have hosted three supernova…
Astronomers used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to identify spiral arms of molecular…
Using data from ESA’s Herschel space observatory and NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, astronomers…
New research reveals that planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars may have long…
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope to monitor the variability of light from 882 previously identified…
A new study examines in what sense a neutron star-black hole binary could be the…
Astronomers have discovered a new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may…
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory, scientists have developed a new way of measuring precise…
Using data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have…
Using the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope, astronomers have measured the transit of exoplanet 55 Cancri…