New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now scheduled for launch in early September as agency officials hail its early ...

A new simulation of supermassive black holes—the behemoths at the centers of galaxies—uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, ...

And yet, in just 50 years, we've noticed some pretty big changes happening on Utopia Planitia, which was possibly once part ...

Black holes have kept astrophysicists awake at night since their theoretical conception. A new study explores singularity-free alternatives to these mysterious objects. Since Einstein formulated ...

Breakthroughs in astrophysics could reshape our understanding of the universe in the next decade. Observations of gravity waves could prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or tip physics on ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

UCSC has received a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support talented but financially needy students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in physics or astrophysics. The Alfred ...

Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has won the prestigious 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her path-breaking research focused on the invisible universe, including the nature of ...

The MPA is the major German institution dedicated to theoretical and interpretational research in astrophysics and cosmology. Areas of interest include stellar astrophysics, computational astrophysics ...