“This is the place to be if you are doing time domain astronomy,” says Andrej Prša, an astronomer at Villanova University. He’s referring to Hotwired 5, short for the fifth annual Hotwiring the ...

The internationally renowned Dan David Prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, annually awards three prizes of US$1 million each to outstanding figures whose work represents remarkable ...

Abstract: Quasars in the Age of Time-Domain Astronomy: Black hole feeding, visible as quasars, is a critical ingredient in many fields from galaxy evolution to multi-messenger gravitational wave ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

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 […] ...