Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

About 4.4 million years ago, two blue stars passed just 30–35 light years from our solar system, leaving traces in nearby gas and dust and influencing the local cosmic environment, according to ...

PHOENIX — Like a motorboat doing doughnuts in a lake, Betelgeuse’s companion star leaves a wake in the giant star’s atmosphere. Signs of the smaller star’s trail around the red supergiant are the best ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

Why now: In April, current Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced he'd retire after the 2025-26 academic year.

The political and cultural climate that’s arisen under the Trump administration has allowed research to be cut to the bone ...

A team of international researchers, led by a University of British Columbia astrophysicist, has discovered a young galaxy ...

Backstory: From being out of town the day the Palisades fire started to reports her fire department glossed over serious ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, was named Tuesday the next president of Caltech, ...

Nvidia shares slipped even after the company said its new line of AI server systems, dubbed Vera Rubin after the astrophysicist, would be ready for launch this year. Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...