Physics & Astronomy

Join Sigma Xi for the Science and Society Distinguished Public Talk on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Conference Center Auditorium as they present guest speaker and physics Professor Joe Incandela.

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics & Astronomy hosted more than a hundred local high school students, their parents, and teachers during its annual open house on Nov. 4.

A University of New Mexico Ph.D. student is perfecting a new way to forecast stream flow levels with tremendous accuracy.

A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that the "halos" of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common than previously thought.

Gregory Ottino, a sophomore majoring in physics and mathematics at the University of New Mexico has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship, the leading national scholarship for undergraduate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students. The...

Innovative optical fiber, developed by researchers from the University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Corning Incorporated and Clemson University, was chosen as one of Physics World’s Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2014.

A crowd of more than 300 flooded Keller Hall recently to hear 2006 Nobel Prize winner John C. Mather speak on the James Webb Space Telescope and the principles of its operation. If all goes according to plan, said Mather, this uniquely powerful ...

Streaking across the sky at more than 50 kilometers per second at atmospheric heights of more than a 90 kilometers high, researchers using the first station of University of New Mexico’s Long Wavelength Array (LWA) saw something new that had never ...

Research is a strong driving force behind technology and it will be the focus of the University of New Mexico’s annual Cyberinfrastructure Day as scientists from across the state gather on Friday, April 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Ballrooms A&B at ...

For years, Ivan Deutsch has toiled in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico trying to crack the code. His research, along with his colleagues at the Center for Quantum Information and Control, or CQuIC, is focused on ...