As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced the 10 recipients of the 2026 Kavli Prize in the fields of ...

What happens when a space telescope is built to be small enough to share a rocket, yet targeted enough to do work that overbooked flagships cannot? The Falcon 9 rideshare mission SpaceX dubbed ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team models the atmospheres of distant planets using neural networks. Researchers from LMU, the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and the ...

Explore black hole discovery in astrophysics, from hidden stellar remnants to supermassive giants, and learn how scientists detect these invisible cosmic objects using light and gravitational waves.

Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) ...