Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

In a new paper published in Physical Review X, researchers present compelling evidence for a “helicity barrier”—a previously ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The Numerical Astrophysics Facility emphasizes theoretical and numerical studies of stars, star clusters, the early universe, galaxy distributions, cosmology modeling, and gravitational lensing. The ...