How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at its outer edges. Now, for the first time, an international team of ...

The findings suggest that while massive black holes are not required to explain observed data, the presence of intermediate-mass black holes remains entirely plausible.

In general, anything larger than 13 times the mass of Jupiter has been deemed a brown dwarf, as these objects should be able ...

An international team of researchers reports the result of an incredible experiment performed on Mars. It had never been done ...

By Haneen Zain Since joining UC Santa Cruz in 2007, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has pushed the boundaries of astronomy and ...

An astrophysics expert gave a free presentation at Cal Poly Wednesday and unveiled new images of solar storms. The university ...

Computational astrophysics courses teach numerical techniques to simulate complex astronomical phenomena such as galaxy ...