Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and apparent age collide with the limits of current models, forcing researchers ...

Using Nasa ’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

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