When Coleman Dean first arrived at the University of Alberta as an undergraduate, he wasn't entirely sure what he wanted to ...

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the FU Orionis' mechanisms. In 1936, the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) ...

The cosmic dawn, a period less than a billion years after the Big Bang, holds one of modern astrophysics' greatest mysteries: ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

The United States and Mexico will strengthen partnerships in astronomy and astrophysics research, and look for opportunities to cooperate on STEM initiatives, NASA announced.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

UCLA astrophysics professor Daniel McKeown became homeless after working a year with a paltry salary. McKeown has been ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...