Black holes always seem to get theHollywood treatment despite the fact that their cousins, neutron stars, claim the highest-density matter astronomers can observe directly. That’s because black holes ...

Weather is a one-day event. For all of the analysis of trends, of where clouds or Sun will mark the landscape, anything can happen on any given day. In Texas, the weather prospects for the Great ...

Australian astronomers have built themselves one of the world’s best ‘wide-field’ digital cameras, with chips that now outstrip photographic plates, according to the Federal Minister for Education, ...

THIS is a handy and lucid manual dealing with all the problems that arise in field work with a theodolite, namely, determinations of altitude, latitude, azimuth, time, and longitude. It contains a ...

This past July astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) released the deepest astronomical image ever obtained, leaving the world in awe. Against the background of a galaxy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. For many years, astronomers have looked forward to a coming revolution ...

Observations of a supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years away from Earth have revealed something completely unexpected: Its magnetic field has flipped. The black hole, dubbed M87* ...

One can only imagine what Grote Reber’s neighbors thought when, in 1937, the amateur radio enthusiast erected in his yard a nearly 10-meter-wide shallow bowl of sheet metal, perched atop an adjustable ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...