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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

There’s an asteroid named after him. But the legacy Roger Griffioen built at Calvin isn’t best discovered through a telescope ...

A graduate physics education should stimulate intellectual excitement and instill the knowledge, skills, confidence, independence, and versatility needed for a successful career in either the sciences ...

Learn how to determine the observed intensity of a supernova using core physics ideas like luminosity, distance, and the inverse-square law. This video walks through the reasoning and calculations ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. When you purchase through links on ...

The article details the historical underrepresentation of women in astronomy, highlighting the significant contributions of numerous women despite facing systemic challenges such as limited access to ...

"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 ...

In a recent survey of more than 1100 astronomers, almost half have received little or no software training, despite 90% writing at least some of their own code. Jon Cartwright reports on the latest ...