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Did you know the University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has a machine shop? It's where science meets steel inside PAIS, with all types of machines to build things that can’t exactly be purchased at the store.

John Mather, Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking observational work on the Big Bang, recently visited The University of New Mexico to share insights on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its early results.  The idea for a new telescope...

Scientists from across the country and from key international partners making up the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) have recently sent their recommendations to U.S. funding agencies for what research projects in particle physics...

Dominic Oddo, a University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy graduate student, was awarded the NASA FINESST grant to fund his research for three years through the end of his Ph.D. Unlike other NASA grants, the student participant (Future...

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Distinguished Professor Greg Taylor recently took a group of students to build antennas at the third Long Wavelength Array (LWA) station. The LWA is a telescope that helps collect radio wave...

Kylar Greene, a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is among 60 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) invites the community to witness a remarkable celestial event as an annular eclipse will grace Albuquerque’s sky on Saturday, Oct. 14. The UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy, along with faculty, students, and staff,...

Prepare for the celestial event of the decade when the Albuquerque skies darken on Saturday, Oct. 14 when an annular eclipse passes overhead. Viewing the sun directly without eye protection can damage your eyes. Prepare for the annular eclipse and UNM’s...

Tonmoy Chakraborty, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $1.82 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) to further...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics and Astronomy received a $750,000 grant from NASA for its research on exoplanets. With NASA's assistance, the Department of Physics and Astronomy is able to utilize the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet...