For decades, astrophysicists have wrestled with a basic but brutal question: how did black holes in the early Universe grow ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The important questions in physics and astronomy change as we learn ...

In this episode of Physics World Stories, host Andrew Glester explores the fascinating hunt for pristine comets – icy bodies ...

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 ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside “hundreds and hundreds” of stars above him every night. “(Space) was just ...

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, ...

The Office of Graduate and Professional Education awards the annual Theodore Wolf Prize to a graduate student in the Physical and Life Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biological Sciences, Geology, ...

Astronomy isn't just about gazing at stars, it's about understanding the invisible forces that govern everything from ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

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 ...