The Very Large Array, the iconic field of radio antennas featured in the film "Contact" (inspired by Carl Sagan's novel), has ...

A wind is blowing away from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, according to new evidence. This ...

The finding, related to a white dwarf star that constantly extracts matter from a companion star, was published in the ...

A star caught feeding on its companion has finally revealed the source of some of the galaxy’s most mysterious repeating ...

The BYU Astronomical Society hosts documentary watch parties every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. during BYU’s spring term.

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system, representing a major step forward ...

About 1.3 billion light-years away, two massive black holes had merged, and the resulting shockwave—a gravitational wave—was strong enough for LIGO to detect the moment it washed over Earth. Since ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

Studying physics can be very useful—even when it comes to machine learning. A digital "super-brain" with built-in knowledge ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

From a trio of planets lining up with a crescent moon to a solstice bringing the beginning of astronomical summer, here are ...

Recent changes in federal research funding and student visa policies continue to create uncertainty for physics and astronomy graduate programs across the United States. Although these developments ...