The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware is a vibrant hub of scientific inquiry, encompassing a diverse range of research areas that push the boundaries of human ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State faculty member with more than a decade of service to the university is the new head of MSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Jeff Winger begins his ...

With some regularity, I get asked the difference between astronomy and astrophysics. I suppose I’m a good person to ask: Of my three degrees, two of them are in “astronomy and astrophysics”. But what ...

PASADENA, Calif.--The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill ...

Olivia Cooper (she/her) is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow studying cosmic assembly from the lens of massive galaxy evolution. In her work, she uses multi-wavelength observations ...

Learn how to determine the observed intensity of a supernova using core physics ideas like luminosity, distance, and the inverse-square law. This video walks through the reasoning and calculations ...

What were the atoms in your body doing eight billion years ago? At least some of them were inside a star that later exploded, says Foothill College Astronomy and Physics Instructor Andrew Fraknoi, who ...

Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez gave her Last Lecture on May 14 to an auditorium filled with Bruins, her former students and fellow faculty. Thousands of Bruins voted for Ghez – who was one of 260 faculty ...

The Office of Graduate and Professional Education awards the annual Theodore Wolf Prize to a graduate student in the Physical and Life Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biological Sciences, Geology, ...

The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astronomy and astrophysics with the research community, the ...

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student Pranvera Hyseni turned a moment of wonder into a lifelong mission to bring ...