Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying... How Jocelyn Bell once made a discovery that changed ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Italian astronomers have observed five blue straggler stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Their results show that one of these stars has a white dwarf ...

The first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light have been observed for the first time, thanks to images captured with the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) MIRI infrared sensor. These images ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...