A mysterious object with a mass equivalent to 1 million suns has been detected in space, but its nature remains unknown.

A former University of Iowa employee has pled guilty to charges stemming from using the school's resources in his personal business.Brian Busch entered the ple ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

A University of Nebraska–Lincoln physicist, Robert Streubel, has received an $849,399 grant from the National Science ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Professor Cristina Lazzeroni, Professor Mark Dennis and Dr Lok Yiu Wu have received medals in this year's awards.

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 ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...