TUCSON (KVOA) — A new research facility opened today at the University of Arizona Tech Park. The Mission Integration Lab is groundbreaking for balloon-borne astronomy experiments and missions. "A ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

The release of the new images was delayed by the 43-day U.S. federal government shutdown, the longest in American history.

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

Step into a a whole new world of discovery during the City of Astronomy Science Festival at the Pasadena Convention Center.

NASA’s Balloon Program Analysis Group recently presented a roadmap to NASA to guide them on how to plan and fund future balloon astronomy programs. Balloons have been used for over a century to ...

Just after the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Illinois released its results, the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) ATLAS and CMS experiment teams presented their latest preliminary results in the search ...

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies ...

Researechers are testing superconducting microwire single-photon detectors (SMSPDs) for use in future particle physics exepriments. The detectors, which were designed and fabricated at JPL and ...

Kanpur: Night-sky observation sessions, expert-led talks on fundamentals and hands-on astronomy activities would soon be introduced in govt schools in Uttar Pradesh to nurture budding ‘Sunita Williams ...

Researchers have developed a novel high-energy particle detection instrumentation approach that leverages the power of quantum sensors -- devices capable of precisely detecting single particles. To ...