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

Three students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at East Texas A&M University have been awarded competitive ...

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook ...

Flashes like Cherenkov radiation in space may reveal negative-energy ghosts, hinting at gaps in gravity theories.

In spring 2002, Chelsey Bryant Krug flew to Colorado in search of a job. She had just enrolled as a graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She found ...

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

Space plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in planetary and astrophysical environments where electromagnetic forces dominate over collisional interactions. This field explores ...

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