Black Hole blast unleashes ultra-fast winds at one-fifth the speed of light Astronomers have ...

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

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

TEENAGER Akshay Parmar is a real star pupil after passing his GCSE in astronomy a year early and only narrowly missing out on the top grade. The 14-year-old is a pupil at Colchester Royal Grammar ...

New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters collide. At the universe's grandest scales, galaxy clusters collide in ...

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7.

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...

Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more. By Katrina Miller Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright ...