Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected.

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

A futuristic telescope design could one day let scientists finally look at fine details of the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoplanets — confirming if some are potentially habitable worlds. It would do ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an ...

If you are into planets and also like to get up pre-dawn (much easier in the Northern hemisphere now that it is winter here), ...

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 ...