The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

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Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — A NASA astrophysics mission remains on schedule to launch in April after teams went “above and beyond” to fix a problem with one component of the spacecraft that ...

The AXIS mission, led by MIT, progresses in NASA's Probe Explorers competition, set to unveil cosmic mysteries.

This new text surveys a series of fundamental problems in astrophysics, both analytically and computationally for advanced students in physics and astrophysics. The contents are supported by over 110 ...

Providing students with an in-depth account of the astrophysics of high energy phenomena in the Universe, the third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and ...

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The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...

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