The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) is a Medium-class Explorer mission that will conduct an all-sky ultraviolet survey. Credit: Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA has selected four mission concepts for additional ...

Solar filaments are vast clouds of relatively cool plasma, often stretching across enormous distances, held aloft by complex magnetic fields.

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang W. W. Norton (2018) A poignant moment of professional soul-searching sets the scene in US ...

The giant orange magnets were built decades ago to confine hydrogen nuclei in the quest for fusion energy. But since 1998, Jan Egedal, a plasma physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

What are the key scientific challenges for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade? Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s identifies the most compelling science goals ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have been unraveling the secrets of the far-flung universe for more than a century, but starting in 2018-19, undergraduates will be able to formally declare a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope undergoing testing at a Northrop Grumman facility in July. NASA announced July 16 that the mission's launch will be delayed by seven months, to the end of October ...

Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development. Now an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When you think of the great cosmic beyond and what we know about the ...

With some regularity, I get asked the difference between astronomy and astrophysics. I suppose I’m a good person to ask: Of my three degrees, two of them are in “astronomy and astrophysics”. But what ...

As well as linked publications per individual that follow below, you can also view the group's publications on arXiv: Astronomy and Astrophysics from the past 12 months. Mr Thaer Alkousa Science and ...