Multi-messenger astrophysics is a new field that uses information carried by cosmic messengers: photons, cosmic rays, neutrinos and gravitational waves, to observe and understand violent astrophysical ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that the Gemini Observatory is the recipient of a multi-million dollar award to enhance its role in the era of “multi-messenger astronomy” and ...

A year after detecting a neutron star collision, scientists are excited for the future of multi-messenger astronomy and astrophysics. There’s a large subset of astronomers and astrophysicists who ...

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You know how the classic Beatles song goes: scientists make novel discoveries with a little help from their academically tangential friends. (Or something like that.) In the case of a recent study, ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and nine other collaborating organizations $2.8 million to further develop the concept for a Scalable ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists announced Monday (Oct. 16) that the era of multi-messenger astronomy has officially ...

This year's Breakthrough Prize has a nice, spacey flavor. British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell nabbed a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as we learned last month.