The Excellence Fellowship consists of a grant amounting to CHF 10'000 to CHF 15’000/year (no teaching duties); it is awarded for one year and extended for the regular duration of the chosen Master's ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

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Though the Drake University Faculty Senate voted to reduce the physics department last year, remnants of the study continue to exist without the backbone of its former department.  However, despite ...

In an office decorated with photos of stars and comets illuminating the night sky, Elias Aydi has written his first novel ...

A recent trip to the arctic circle in Sweden to view and photograph the aurora by Middle Tennessee State University professor ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars (the collapsed remnants of massive stars), according to new ...

Western Wyoming Community College (Western) hosted science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students, in grades 6-12 ...

The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology gets under way at an event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...