An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

Denison University professor Steve Olmschenk shares his lifelong passion for science, quantum physics and teaching students.

The archetype is familiar: The solitary physicist, deep in thought, paces beside a chalkboard peppered with symbols and equations. The astronomer, perched alone at the edge of the night, peers into a ...

Vasquez, a Ferris State University student, is participating in NASA’s L’SPACE Program while also working at the university’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — National Astronomy Day is quickly approaching, and to celebrate, the University of Illinois Springfield ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I've been able to look at what students struggle with and then ask myself, 'What's something that might be more familiar that will allow them to understand the more complicated or esoteric details of ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - Ian Crossfield and Betsy Mills are both astronomy and physics professors at the University of Kansas. Their small TV room has planet-print curtains and a rocket on the throw ...

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 ...