The interactive tool below benchmarks physics and astronomy programs nationwide by faculty size and the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded. This allows departments and administrators to see where ...

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 important questions in physics and astronomy change as we learn ...

A University of Kansas alumna became the fifth Jayhawk to go to space last week, and professors are hoping her accomplishment ...

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 ...

For decades, astrophysicists have wrestled with a basic but brutal question: how did black holes in the early Universe grow ...

Celebrating the appointment of Professor Lloyd Knox, center, as the new Michael and Ester Vaida Endowed Chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics are, from left: Distinguished Professor Andreas Albrecht, ...

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 ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside “hundreds and hundreds” of stars above him every night. “(Space) was just ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...