A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

The European Space Agency's billion-dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has shifted its focus to an extraordinary cosmic intruder, a comet originating from beyond our solar system. Juice, which launched ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope’s final data release confirms a major cosmic discrepancy and rules out many attempted solutions.

In 2016, the first direct observation of gravitational waves was reported. The measurements by the LIGO detectors gave astronomers a new way to observe the Universe. Gudrun Wanner is at the Institute ...

HAWTHORNE, CA - OSI Optoelectronics today announced the launch of its latest innovation in photonic technology: the APX-VNG0031PSD Two-Dimensional Position Sensitive Detector (PSD) series, featuring ...

Stephanie Cortes teaches astronomy from the front of a Pima Community College classroom and also while dressed in a colorful cosmic bodysuit atop the shoulders of her acrobat friends. Cortes, who has ...

Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the ...