Astrophysics

Humans may be destined to wipe out all other life in the cosmos, but we're sure stumbling at the first hurdles when it comes to...

Despite all the unknowns surrounding black holes--what they look like, what happens to the matter that falls in, and how many are...

If you had a degree in astrophysics, access to high-powered computers, and a love of sci-fi, you might do what Sean Raymond did:...

Evidence has been piling up for the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system, but no one has directly observed this supposedly...

The Stephen Hawking Foundation is giving away 1,000 tickets to the Westminster Abbey Memorial Service in June. Here's how to win.

Stephen Hawking's Breakthrough Listen initiative is launching a massive brand-new project to find advanced alien life in the Milky Way...

A team of astrophysicists at the Max Planck Institute lead by a research professor from NYU Abu Dhabi have made the groundbreaking...

Researchers at Columbia University's Cool Worlds laboratory – part of their Department of Astronomy – have discovered that...

An astronomer created an algorithm that turns astronomical data about the Milky Way galaxy into jazz music.

When scientists start talking about time travel, the conversation always seems to come back to three things: the speed of light,...

The ESA's Gaia satellite is the gift that just keeps on giving--not only has it given astronomers and astrophysicists a super-accurate...

One of the major assumptions scientists and sci-fi fans have made about alien civilizations is that their journey into space is...

If wormholes exist, we may be one step closer to finding them thanks to a new study authored by Indian physicist Rajibul Shaikh.  ...

Even with ambitious projects like the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has come up empty...

When it comes to dark matter, every new discovery seems to take us two steps forward and one step back.   In 2015, it seemed like...

It turns out that the recipe for a habitable, Earth-like planet is lot more complicated than we ever imagined: You need stable...

Back in January, New Zealand-based spaceflight company Rocket Lab launched a controversial satellite called the Humanity Star into...

Altogether, CERN spent about $13.25 billion on finding the elusive particle known as the Higgs-Boson, which is hypothesized to be...

The Milky Way galaxy might be dead... It just hasn't stopped moving yet.

Renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking died on Wednesday of complications arising from his 55-year struggle with amyotrophic...