New data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft have led to the discovery of a rare subclass…
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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.
While combing through several years of Chandra data, researchers discovered a black hole destroying a…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers discovered more than 100 dwarf galaxies…
New research with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed four unusually bright galaxies as they…
While searching Kepler data for exomoons, astronomers discovered the first Earth-mass planet that crosses in…
Using NASA’s Fermi observatory, researchers have made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens,…
Astronomers used ALMA to observe the remains of Supernova 1987A, seeing for the first time…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered a triple star system with two white…
New research from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array makes disk fragmentation the strongest…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from the University of Chicago have detected…
This eight-minute Hubblecast video takes a look at gravitational lensing, explaining how it works and…
In a review paper, Stefano Liberati provides a systematic overview of the experiments and observations…
In a new study, astronomers detail the discovery of a gamma-ray burst without a radio…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers surveyed the cores of some of the…
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for determining the mass of exoplanets using only…
In a new study, researchers show that two of the brightest and most distant supernovae…
By observing the last major growth spurt of galaxy clusters, which happened billions of years…
A new Hubblecast video explores the striking new Hubble observations of a variable star known…