Astrophysics doctoral student Siddharth Chaini is quick to tell you about Annie Jump Cannon and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, pioneers in the history of astronomy. Using his NASA FINESST grant, he hopes to ...

From the sea to the stars, two University of Delaware doctoral students — one studying the ocean and the other the cosmos — are charting new frontiers as part of NASA’s next generation of scientists.

The most tragic event in modern astronomy isn’t a funding cut or a launch failure. It is a “missed connection.” Right now, a neutron star collision somewhere in the distant universe is blasting out a ...

Astrophysicists and cosmologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the first scientists to have access to the powerful new Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed final assembly in late November 2025 with a launch as soon as the fall of 2026. Credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya GREENBELT, Md. — The head of NASA’s ...