Graduate student Vinicius Ferreira Rodrigues, a member of Professor Denis Candido's Condensed Matter Group, earned a Gold ...

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Professor Kenneth G. Gayley helped debunk moon landing conspiracy theories on LiveNOW. Kim Kardashian says she doesn't believe that America made it to the moon ...

Today, Brian Metzger, who earned BS degrees from Iowa in physics, astronomy, and math in 2003, and is now on the faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York received the Blavatnik Award for ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

Assistant Professor David Nataf has recently received several research grants that could improve our understanding of planets outside the solar system. Nataf received $25,000 in July 2025 and ...

Associate Professor Allison Jaynes is among University of Iowa faculty members who have been selected as recipients of the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Awards for 2023. This is the second year for ...

The work of the late Professor Donald Gurnett is highlighted in this Scientific American article about the Voyager spacecraft, which are still running after nearly 45 years in space but will soon lose ...

George Hospodarsky, research scientist and engineer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be on the search committee for the next University of Iowa vice president for research. UI ...

Rachael Filwett, postdoctoral research scholar and adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded $149,939 from NASA's Heliophysics Flight Opportunity Studies Program ...

A paper by Arya Afshari, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, was recently noted as being a Top 10 Percent Downloaded Paper in the Wiley Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.