The head of NASA’s astrophysics division offered an upbeat assessment of upcoming missions, a stark contrast to the agency’s budget proposal six months ago.

Mark Clampin (center) will take over as director of NASA's astrophysics division Aug. 15 after working on several major missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/Rebecca ...

For more than a year, Chris Packham, an astrophysics professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been using data from the James Webb Space Telescope to study how galaxies interact with ...

As NASA’s next flagship space telescope is riddled with delays, the space agency is giving scientists some hard limits on how much money can be spent on future astrophysics missions. Last week, NASA ...

American astronomers are calling for the development of a whole new suite of grandiose space telescopes that will be able to peer into the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System, listen to ...

In addition to ferrying tons of food, water and supplies to the International Space Station, a Japanese cargo ship that arrived on Monday (Aug. 23) carried an astrophysics telescope that will join the ...

Research collaboration: Astrophysics Research Consortium (ARC) Telescope is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions. Identify ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and their collaborators at other institutions anticipate new insights into the mysteries of high-energy astrophysics as plans for an innovative ...

How did it all begin? That is the fundamental question that Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage hope to shed light on with the latest project, the Cosmology Large-Angular ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. HONOLULU — NASA's next flagship space telescope is still on track for a launch in March 2021 ...

DURING the past few years, NATURE has published from time to time supplements containing the views of some of our leading astronomers and physicists on problems of the structure and history of the ...