Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — When NASA in the summer of 2017 launched its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or ...
With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars. When you purchase through links on our ...
The Union Budget 2026–27 has introduced a landmark era for Indian astrophysics, signaling a shift from routine satellite missions to "discovery-class" science. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s ...
On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences — an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt — announced an ambitious initiative to build a space telescope larger than Hubble ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...