Astrophysics

Five remarkable stars on the other side of our galaxy promise new insight into the outer reaches of our home turf

Cosmic inflation, nano-optics, memory and cognition are among the topics to earn recognition

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, of the University of Toronto, talks about his new book Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Last year I got talking to theoretical physicist Aron Wall about the thermodynamics of quantum gravity. Now that's a deceptively beautiful phrase: in four words, you get three of the deepest areas in modern science.

Hubble, Kepler, Chandra and other orbiting observatories got reprieves, but the Spitzer mission may be canceled
 

                In about a month’s time, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft will adjust its orbit and dip into the outer venusian atmosphere.

Kepler will rely on solar radiation pressure to balance its compromised pointing ability in order to make observations of targets in the plane of Earth's orbit

One of the most fundamental but elusive constituents of the cosmos could soon be cornered
 

When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it acts like a lens to make the larger star appear brighter to us.

 

The detection of a runaway star may explain how a massive object turned into a dense, magnetic magnetar instead of collapsing into a black hole

The star cluster HVGC-1 had been part of the M87 galaxy, but now it's fleeing that galaxy at more than two million miles per hour. Clara Moskowitz reports

 

Live streaming video by Ustream It doesn’t get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).