Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

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The twinkling stars in the sky are further than they appear. So much so that NASA's Voyager 1 is still on its way to reach the star system since its launch on September 5, 1977. It will probably take ...

The goal of NASA’s Universe of Learning (UoL) is to connect the public to the data, discoveries, and experts that span NASA’s ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

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 ...

Three students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at East Texas A&M University have been awarded competitive ...

Astrophysicists and cosmologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the first scientists to have access to the powerful new Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center.

An edited compilation of notes distributed to students to serve as basic text material for a course jointly presented by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Maryland and ...