The below four-minute ScienceCast video explores the possibility that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer onboard 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.
Researchers from the Kavli IPMU have used gravitational lensing to identify a distant Type Ia…
Using “characterization by proxy” and observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, researchers take a closer…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers observed 20 nearby galaxies, some of which were known…
In a new study, researchers suggest that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, demonstrating…
A new e-MERLIN image of Betelgeuse reveals two hot spots that appear on the sides…
Follow NASA’s Voyager spacecraft as they head towards interstellar space with NASA’s Eyes on the…
In a newly published study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis report finding tiny…
Using Hubble, WISE and the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, astronomers…
By using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many…
In a newly published study, astronomers investigate the links between supernova remnants and cosmic rays.…
In a new paper, astronomers explore the properties Kelper 62e and 62f, which are part…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers noticed that the emission spectrum from blazar…
A newly released image of SN 1006 provides new details about the remains of an…
By improving an algorithm that is important for studying quasars, astrophysicists determined the radio and…
A large team of astronomers has discovered the earliest starburst galaxy ever observed. Occurring just…
SuperCDMS researchers have for the first time observed a concrete hint of a weakly interacting…