The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

Before the decade is out, the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA)—1,650 20-foot diameter dish-shaped antennas spread over just more ...

Sophia Varughese has two passions: astrophysics and music. Her senior thesis is a scholarly look at black holes and ...

As part of Black Space Week 2025, five stellar astrophysicists and solar physicists share information about their scientific interests, research projects and personal motivations for working in ...

The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been awarded to Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley. They share the prize “for their ...

In an elementary school science class, Rav Kaur first learned about stars, planets, and other wonders in the night skies. That introduction to the solar system launched her passion for space ...

Dark matter halos are everywhere in the universe, yet no telescope can see them. These vast, invisible structures surround ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading scientist on the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium, died on ...

The most tragic event in modern astronomy isn’t a funding cut or a launch failure. It is a “missed connection.” Right now, a neutron star collision somewhere in the distant universe is blasting out a ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

Conferences, activities and meetings with young researchers: the 6th Astronomy Night 2026 invites the public to explore a century of discoveries about galaxies, on Saturday, June 20 at the Paris ...

The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...