Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova ...

University of Mississippi researchers supported a groundbreaking international study that has produced the most precise ...

"Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build" debuts Nov. 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. "Operation Space Station: Science and ...

The results add to physicists’ understanding of neutrinos and validate collaboration between major experiments.

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

A Nova aka a New Star is a sudden outburst on the surface of a white dwarf (remnant of a dead star) when it pulls enough material from its companion in a binary system. The companion is usually a star ...

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The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015 was awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which showed that neutrinos have mass. This discovery kicked off a global effort to better understand ...

The beam is off, but high energy physics research is very much on at one of the world’s premier particle physics labs. The requirements of social distancing have prompted scientists at the U.S.