The twinkling stars in the sky are further than they appear. So much so that NASA's Voyager 1 is still on its way to reach the star system since its launch on September 5, 1977. It will probably take ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the completion of a telescope designed to investigate exoplanets and dark matter in photos released Dec. 4, 2025. The Roman Telescope ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket. NASA ...

Astrophysicists and cosmologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the first scientists to have access to the powerful new Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking the mystery of dark matter, thanks to a new high-resolution map of distant galaxies. The map was created from high-resolution images from NASA's James ...

NASA's current strategy of favoring large astrophysics missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope at the expense of smaller missions could be closing the door on future scientific discoveries, ...

An interstellar object roughly the size of Manhattan has captured scientists’ attention — and one prominent Harvard astrophysicist believes it could be something far beyond natural. According to the ...

A rtemis II is going back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and the astronauts are out of quarantine, quashing our hopes of seeing the launch next week or the one after. Friday morning, we ...

The universe is unfathomably vast, and for the astronomers trying to understand it, that means having to gather a commensurately mind-boggling amount of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was ...

An edited compilation of notes distributed to students to serve as basic text material for a course jointly presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Maryland and ...