“We are extremely pleased to welcome Claudio Chamon to our college’s faculty,” said Lucy Flesch, the Fredrick L. Hovde Dean ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through ...

The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we see them.

Now, Lowell Observatory is expanding again with addition of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center, a state-of-the-art science center with interactive exhibits, a stunning theater and an ...

KU astronomy hosted a a stargazing and planetarium event on Nov. 7 at Slawson Hall for students, staff and faculty to spend a ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation have selected a group of institutions, including Argonne, to receive funding to establish an AI and astronomy institute called the NSF-Simons ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Carol Lee Lutsinger has taught and written about the stars for decades, and now she's something of a star herself. Lutsinger, who in 2020 retired from the Brownsville Independent School District after ...

This excellent question forces us to confront a region beyond the bounds of our intuition, so please bear with me. When you inflate a balloon, the balloon’s membrane moves outward, closer to the ...