"Explore the fascinating world of astrophysics and how galaxy rotation curves give us critical insight into dark matter! In this video, we’ll break down how the rotation speeds of stars and gas within ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

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Dark matter is one of the great unresolved mysteries of the universe. Many scientists are trying to solve the enigma, but ...

Thirty-six rising high school seniors are spending five weeks studying near-Earth asteroids using the telescopes at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Sommers-Bausch Observatory. CU Boulder is ...

In this Python astrophysics tutorial, I walk you through calculating the gravitational field produced by a ring of mass. Using numerical methods and Python libraries, we explore how to compute ...

NASA says both the House and Senate funding levels for WFIRST in their respective spending bills would allow the mission to continue, but the lower amount in the Senate bill could force the mission to ...

Your complete guide to astrophysics, what it is and how to get involved. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astrophysics is a branch ...

Time is relative, but some of us still don't have enough of it to fully take in the most salient aspects of such topics as dark matter, exoplanets, the Big Bang, and why so many objects in outer space ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Chi Nguyen was selected for a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Research. Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, is a Ph.D. student ...

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