Neil deGrasse Tyson directs the world-famous Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and hosts the popular radio and TV show “Star Talk.” His latest book is called “Accessory to War: the Unspoken ...

Astrophysicists confirm first-ever detection of cosmic strings. Story by Joseph Shavit • 6d. ... leaving the existence of ...

Located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), these filaments could be a part of a cyclical process in one of the galaxy’s most mysterious regions.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — An astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics has found that some nanodiamonds, the most famous and exotic ...

Joseph Shklovsky, one of the pioneers of modern astrophysics, said that the existence of a star is a perpetual conflict between two opposing forces: the gravitational force that seeks to contract ...

The universe shines with the light of some billion trillion stars. A team of astrophysicists recently used a satellite to sum up all these stars' light, measured in particles called photons. Let ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.