A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighborhood. The plasma ...

Voyager 1 – one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space – still works and zooms toward infinity. The craft has long since zipped past ...

More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries. In a new study, a team of physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first detection of bursts of ...

"After all the jaw-dropping cinematography and carefully-buffed CGI, in fact, "Interstellar" winds up fitting into a fairly narrow and deeply tired sub-genre alongside films like "Frequency," "Contact ...

World-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Kip Thorne, theoretical physics, the California Institute of Technology, described how black holes and the recent detection of gravitational waves contributed to ...