Photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism ...

NANOGrav is changing how we understand the cosmos by turning pulsars into galactic sensors. By tracking tiny changes in the ...

“Since these stars are young and massive,” Han told Astronomy ... our understanding of the dynamics and history of our local galactic neighborhood — knowing both the locations and ...

Could our planet be trapped in an invisible cosmic tug-of-war? Some scientists believe that the strange movements of galaxies ...

The Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) is one of the few programs nationwide that combines both astrophysics and planetary science, providing a unified view of space sciences, ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth. And what they’ve documented challenges prevailing theories about black hole ...

Our students become accomplished critical thinkers who have a unified view of solar and space sciences, planetary systems, stellar and galactic astronomy, and cosmology, and who apply this knowledge ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...