Star and planet formation is a messy affair. It starts with the gravitational collapse of a gigantic cloud of gas...
The origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields is a long-standing unsolved question at the frontier of astronomy and astrophysics...
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group...
Astronomers, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China’s Guizhou Province, have found an abundance of gas-rich galaxies...
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape...
Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have located an exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away...
One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up....
In images from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black...
A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost...
Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded,...
