The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy Senior Review report, released today, contains a variety of recommendations related to the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. “NOAO welcomes the ...

The American Astronomical Society, the largest professional organization for research astronomers in the United States has issued a statement on the recently released National Science Foundation ...

Black holes and spacetime singularities are fundamental in science. While observational proof for black holes is hard to come by, alternatives can be ruled out or confirmed to exist through precision ...

Nature Astronomy offers double-anonymized peer review; authors who choose this option will remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process. If you want to participate in ...

As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...