Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an ...

Breakthroughs in astrophysics could reshape our understanding of the universe in the next decade. Observations of gravity waves could prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or tip physics on ...

Research and teaching funding for the discipline comes primarily from the Astronomical Sciences Division (AST) in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Directorate, with additional support from ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

PASADENA, Calif.--The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill ...

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 ...

Olivia Cooper (she/her) is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow studying cosmic assembly from the lens of massive galaxy evolution. In her work, she uses multi-wavelength observations ...

Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

The archetype is familiar: The solitary physicist, deep in thought, paces beside a chalkboard peppered with symbols and equations. The astronomer, perched alone at the edge of the night, peers into a ...

"I've been able to look at what students struggle with and then ask myself, 'What's something that might be more familiar that will allow them to understand the more complicated or esoteric details of ...

My name is Vanessa Brown and I’m a first-year PhD student in the APS department at the University of Colorado Boulder. I received my M.S. Astrophysics from the City University of New York (CUNY) in ...