The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

The Fox Valley Astronomical Society recently awarded Mark Christensen with an Extraordinary Leadership Award. Christensen has ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

With the search for Tim Killeen’s successor set to commence any week now, Editor Jeff D'Alessio asked 72 faculty members ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy has announced four dates for Public Observatory Nights this spring at the ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...