Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Iowa hitches ride on historic mission to the sun

Researchers are co-investigators on two instrument suites aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2018.08.10 | 09:07 am

Research groups with Large Hadron Collider will help design, build, and test subdetectors

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2018.08.06 | 11:26 am

Physics and astronomy professor Phil Kaaret won $3.7 million from NASA to build HaloSat, scheduled for launch on May 20

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2018.05.16 | 10:15 am

Hannah Gulick recognized for work on satellites being launched into space

By: Emily Nelson | 2018.01.22 | 04:26 pm

UI’s proposal is one of five in competition for $165 million in NASA funding

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.10.03 | 08:57 am

Radio- and plasma-wave detector observed signs of lightning on Jupiter, determined when Voyager left solar system

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.09.05 | 10:58 am

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.05.19 | 12:36 pm

Erin Maier to pursue graduate studies in astronomy and astrophysics

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.05.09 | 09:09 am

External Media | 2017.05.02 | 09:36 am

UI device is the only one of its kind in Iowa, handful in US

By: Richard C. Lewis | 2017.02.13 | 12:07 pm