When weather prevented other telescopes from tracking a potentially hazardous asteroid, the Dark Energy Camera stepped in.
With a deadly embrace, ‘spidery’ pulsars devour their partners. One such pulsar is the first rapidly spinning black widow to be discovered using only gamma rays.
Scientists studying five years of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the first gamma-ray variable pulsar. But is it really what it seems?
The distant universe looks a little clearer, thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists who classified more than 6 million images over three days.
Using an entire galaxy as a lens to look at an object in the far distance, researchers are learning more about powerful jets emitted when matter falls into a black hole.
A panel met at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for promising routes to the study of dark matter, dark energy and other phenomena.
Scientists in Japan use ancient trees to look back on the history of our local cosmos, and discover a mystery.
In scientific circles, “mock” is not always a four-letter word. Through mock-data competitions, astrophysicists check their work.
Observations of a rare cosmic explosion challenge scientists’ theoretical understanding of how gamma-ray bursts work.
Scientists on the IceCube experiment discovered two extraterrestrial neutrinos with energies higher than any neutrino anyone had detected before.
