Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Chi Nguyen was selected for a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Research. Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, is a Ph.D. student ...

The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein Fellows (seen in the blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason ...

The farther we reach into space, the greater our capacity to understand the unknown,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said.

From the sea to the stars, two University of Delaware doctoral students — one studying the ocean and the other the cosmos — are charting new frontiers as part of NASA’s next generation of scientists.

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selected by ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket. NASA ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced on Wednesday that it has been chosen by NASA to launch its Aspera mission. Aspera is an astrophysics science mission designed to study the formation and ...

Astrophysics doctoral student Siddharth Chaini is quick to tell you about Annie Jump Cannon and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, pioneers in the history of astronomy. Using his NASA FINESST grant, he hopes to ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Astronomy and astrophysics is in the midst of a period of unprecedented discovery, ...

The second half of the 20th century brought breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics made possible by a confluence of increasingly sophisticated instruments, advances in computing and information ...