UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — At 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on ...

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The discovery hints that temperature ...

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This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook that astronomers use to understand these objects. From its skewed tail to ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

College of Arts and Sciences leadership and peers recognize the physics professor’s service, teaching and research with the award The college presents this prestigious award annually to current ...