This August, astronomy professor Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil received NSF funding to discover some of the smallest, faintest galaxies in the Universe.
Results from a research collaboration between the Fitzpatrick lab at Thayer School of Engineering and Professor Viola's quantum theory group at the Physics and Astronomy Department were published in Nature Communications.
Satellites launched July 23 will study Earth's radiation belts and magnetic shield.
The Physics and Astronomy Department congratulates graduate student Kai Herron on her recent National Science Foundation Fellowship award.
Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, a recent postdoc who worked with Professor Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, has completed the first resolved search for dwarf galaxies orbiting the larger NGC 3109 galaxy.
Galactic Frontiers II: Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume and Beyond brought nearly 120 astronomers from all over the world for three days of education and collaboration.
Dr. Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil and Dr. Elisabeth Newton have both been selected for funding by NASA under the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Science initiative
Graduate student Quinn Casey leads one of the first detailed observations of two ultra-faint galaxies near the Milky Way.
Linear scaling behavior discovered 20 years ago in copper-oxide materials has now been found to be a fundamental relation unifying nearly all superconductors.
New theory says force shaping the universe sprang from rapidly condensing particles.
