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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.
The Next-Generation Transit Survey has achieved first light and will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and…
A newly published study allows the distribution of dark matter halos to be more accurately…
A newly published study details how astronomers have turned to a method called “machine learning”…
This newly released image from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array shows two colliding galaxies, collectively…
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers detail an unusual repeating light signal…
A long-term study has combined data from NASA satellites, ground-based observing campaigns and theoretical modeling…
Using the High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), astronomers show that the recipe for Earth…
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting their stars…
A short video details how volunteers using a NASA-sponsored citizen science website made 1 million…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals why oceans on super-Earths,…
Using Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, new research presented at the 225th American Astronomical Society meeting…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking outburst from…
After 20 years, NASA’s Wind spacecraft is still going strong and helping scientists understand the…
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…