Twentieth-century explorations answered many questions about our satellite and its place in the solar system. But they also raised many new and challenging questions that still remain unanswered. One ...

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying... How Jocelyn Bell once made a discovery that changed ...

New research conducted by an international team of physicists has found that high-energy gamma rays might offer the key to unlocking the mysteries of the sun's magnetic fields.

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light for the first time. Alongside ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA recorded an event that defied astrophysical logic: GW231123 ...

The first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light have been observed for the first time, thanks to images captured with the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) MIRI infrared sensor. These images ...

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 ...