Learn how to determine the observed intensity of a supernova using core physics ideas like luminosity, distance, and the inverse-square law. This video walks through the reasoning and calculations ...

Currently, the Moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about 1.6 inches per year making it slowly appear smaller in the ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

Billy Henry helps bring the stars within reach in his role as the host of StarDate, which airs on public radio stations across the country. He sat down with Texas Standard during our broadcast from ...

(via Kurzgesagt) Our best theory of the universe might be breaking apart! The new data we're receiving from space telescopes is creating more and more cracks in our current understanding of the ...

Our Sun is considered a third-generation star because it formed from a nebula enriched with heavy elements created by previous generations of stars. The first-generation of stars were massive and ...

Gabriela Radulescu has received funding from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025), from the American Institute of Physics for a Grant-in-Aid, ...

A sliver of space where scientists found Segue 1, a faint dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light-years away, in 2006. Credit: Marla Geha / W.M. Keck Observatory It started with a homework assignment: A ...