For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

Eleven faculty members are receiving support for their work through this year’s Hellman Fellowships, and it comes right when ...

On Thursday, Dec. 4 and Sunday, Dec. 7, Outdoor Idaho aired a program about volunteer activity in Idaho. Among other ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers have discovered a beautiful, well-formed spiral galaxy from a time when the universe was still very young—only ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...