At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

If metallurgy reveals Africa’s technical mastery, trade reveals its global centrality. For centuries before European expansion, African societies were not peripheral to world commerce. They were ...

The idea of dark matter has existed for decades, mostly as a necessary explanation rather than something clearly seen. New ...

Today's word of the day 'Astrolabe' refers to an ancient astronomical instrument that once helped people navigate both time and space. An astrolabe is a small, handheld instrument once used to observe ...

The K-DRIFT telescope, built with purely domestic technology and installed at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile, has ...

Great Scott! Legends of Tomorrow still rocks even 10 years later.

Priyamvada Natarajan is among the top astrophysicists in the world whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared observation of the Helix Nebula ever, displaying the death ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

The University of Delaware’s Department of Physics and Astronomy offers an undergraduate major program leading to the B.S. in physics, with the option of a concentration in astronomy/astrophysics, as ...