The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

Being slight oddities, brown dwarfs occupy a strange but useful niche in astronomy. Unlike exoplanets, which are often ...

Today, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee for a Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 released a new consensus study, “Pathways to Discovery in ...

Knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics is crucial to understanding some of the most fundamental questions of our universe. We cannot know the origins of anything—from galaxies to black holes to life ...

PASADENA, Calif.--The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill ...

Isabelle "Izzy" Connor studies astrophysics and engages in STEM outreach, while also coaching rhythmic gymnastics. (Credit: Movember Organization) Third-year undergraduate Isabelle “Izzy” Connor and ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delights stargazers with breathtaking images and groundbreaking discoveries — like the recent revelation that a planet 700 light-years away has a carbon ...

There is a way out of this trap, but it requires a fundamental shift in how NASA thinks about astrophysics procurement. It is time to stop buying hardware and start subscribing to outcomes. It is time ...

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has announced the launch of the initial rounds of the Junior Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

Olivia Cooper (she/her) is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow studying cosmic assembly from the lens of massive galaxy evolution. In her work, she uses multi-wavelength observations ...

With some regularity, I get asked the difference between astronomy and astrophysics. I suppose I’m a good person to ask: Of my three degrees, two of them are in “astronomy and astrophysics”. But what ...