Instruments on the exterior of the International Space Station provide data on astrophysical phenomena that are helping scientists better understand our

NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA's pursuit of excellence in astrophysics.

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) systems have been rapidly improving in recent years and Chat-GPT3 took the world by storm in Nov 2022. As smart at it may be, ...

Perhaps the greatest leaps in all of science history occurred during the 17th century. At the dawn of the century, heliocentrism was just an alternative idea: one that fit the data more poorly than…

NASA has announced it is considering four new mission proposals to study topics in astrophysics, with two to be built for launches in 2027 and 2028.

The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. The program fosters excellence and inclusive leadership in astrophysics by supporting a diverse group of exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using […]

Whenever you take a look out at the Universe and record what you see, you're engaging in one of the oldest sciences there is: astronomy. Similarly, whenever you investigate how a physical phenomenon…

Betelgeuse's unbelievable speed left experts in awe. They're beginning to think it's all just smoke and mirrors.

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) mission has been selected for a 12-month concept study for NASA's new Probe Explorers initiative. A collaboration between MIT's Kavli Institute, the University of Maryland, and NASA, AXIS is designed to study the high-energy universe to unprecedented depth.

In December, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made headlines worldwide. Scientists at the NIF performed the first nuclear fusion experiment in which the energy produced from fusion exceeded the amount of energy directly applied to the fuel to ignite it. This first-of-its-kind result will provide invaluable insight into the potential…

The 1930s were a fascinating and contentious time: both on the global stage and for the science of nuclear physics. Economically, the great depression led to increases in unemployment, dramatic…

After spending the first half of the show grappling with the existential questions, from the prehistory of the known universe to the future of going out to eat, Dave and Chris collect some on-the-ground intel from two longtime experts on life in the ATL: Stephen Satterfield and, of course, Steven Satterfield

Thought to make up 85% of matter in the universe, dark matter is nonluminous and its nature is not well understood. While normal matter absorbs, reflects, and emits light, dark matter cannot be seen directly, making it harder to detect. A theory called "self-interacting dark matter," or SIDM, proposes that dark matter particles self-interact through a dark force, strongly colliding with one another close to the…

Research astrophysicist Regina Caputo puzzles out how the universe works by studying the most extreme events in the cosmos.

For National Pet Day, meet Hubble the dog, Muon the cat and Neutrino the chameleon.

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NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to five early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2023.  The program will support the advancement of their ideas for new technologies to further the exploration of the universe.  This annual fellowship gives researchers the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to become principal investigators […]

With the confirmation of gravitational waves less than a decade old, scientists are barreling ahead with new detectors to pick up ever more elusive ripples in spacetime

A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review, the agency announced