The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

In this video, a nuclear engineer reacts to the Kurzgesagt video "Astronomy is in Crisis and It's Exciting," providing insight into the challenges faced by the field of astronomy. The video discusses ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State faculty member with more than a decade of service to the university is the new head of MSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Jeff Winger begins his ...

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The APS department offers an Astronomy Help Room on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 2-6PM in room D142. The room is open to both Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences majors and students ...

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

The largest ever survey of low-frequency radio emissions from satellites has detected emissions from the Starlink satellite “mega-constellation” across scientifically important low-frequency bands, ...

Brave new worlds: what LIGO–Virgo could see. Click on image to expand. (Courtesy: I Bartos and M Kowalski) I think it’s safe to say that most Nobel-watchers were predicting a LIGO-related physics ...

Physics, the study of space, time, matter, and energy, is a fundamental component of a liberal arts education. Introductory courses in physics and astronomy are designed to give students a broad ...

The Physics Help Center, located in Sharp Lab 101B, is a place where students in introductory physics and astronomy courses can come for assistance with homework, studying, lab reports and other ...