NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

American space agency NASA says the SPHEREx telescope has begun returning science data, and it will all be shared with the ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics group at the SETI Institute is at the forefront of exploring this intricate cosmic pathway, ...

Saturday will mark the last time Le Roy graduate Bo Zeleznik will don a Panther helmet. The Shrine All-Star game at Illinois ...

The Numerical Astrophysics Facility emphasizes theoretical and numerical studies of stars, star clusters, the early universe, galaxy distributions, cosmology modeling, and gravitational lensing. The ...

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