Astrophysics

Scientists use archival images of Jupiter to search for dark matter collisions.

A recent study of the Small Magellanic Cloud has revealed that this nearby galaxy may actually be two galaxies that overlap from our point of view.

Astrophysicists have discovered a bizarre planet with clouds of sand over 200 light years away.

Scientists have observed time dilation in the variability of quasars, an effect predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity.

Astronomers recently observed a planet being eaten by its star. In billions of years, the Earth will experience the same fate.

Researchers have discovered a mysterious, repeating pattern of fast radio bursts from space - and no one knows where they are coming from.

Data from the New Horizons probe, flying in the asteroid field far beyond Pluto, have finally been downloaded and analyzed. They challenge our previous views of the formation of the solar system.

by Sasha Brownsberger figures by Abagail Burrus Everything you have ever touched, seen, or tasted; the air you breathe; the ground on which you stand; and the constituents of your body all consist of a type of matter that is only a fraction of all that…

The AMS Experiment on the International Space Station In 2011 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, was launched into space. AMS, housed by the International Space Station and led by a Nobel Prize winning principle investigator, is commonly referred…

At the 11th Identification of Dark Matter Conference, LUX, the Large Underground Xenon experiment, announced the results of the world’s most sensitive search for dark matter. Physicists at LUX have been racing for a dark matter discovery since the…