Category: Physics & Astronomy

Interested in exploring the night sky and enjoying free educational summer fun? Join The Stella Hotel and Texas A&M Astronomy for one last summer hurrah -- a Star Party at The Stella, set for August 8 from 9 to 11 p.m.

An international team of astronomers that includes Texas A&M’s Benjamin Boizelle and Jonelle Walsh has used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to obtain the clearest view to date of cold gas rotation around a supermassive black hole and calculated the mass of this supermassive black hole — the largest ever measured with ALMA — to be a whopping 2.25 billion times that of our Sun.

Emails between two faculty members aren't necessarily newsworthy, but when it's two Texas A&M distinguished professors exchanging space-related videos and brief memories of the Apollo program, consider our curiosity piqued by a rare glimpse at the humanity behind the history on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Interested in exploring the night sky and enjoying free educational summer fun? Join The Stella Hotel and Texas A&M Astronomy for the next Star Party at The Stella, set for July 18 from 9 to 11 p.m.

As a graduate student in astronomy at Texas A&M University, Taylor Hutchison '22 studies some of the most distant galaxies ever found, using some of the largest telescopes on Earth to do so. Learn more about her passion for science and the stars as well as the exhilarating potential of living a dream come true.

Congratulations to Texas A&M physicist and Mitchell Institute Director Bhaskar Dutta, who has been appointed as holder of the Mitchell-Heep Chair in High Energy Physics.

Join The Stella Hotel and Texas A&M Astronomy Thursday (June 13) to kick off the summer season in style at a free Star Party at The Stella from 9 to 11 p.m.!

Texas A&M physicist Ed Fry has been selected to receive the Texas A&M Foundation's 2019 Partner in Philanthropy Faculty Award recognizing his commitment to enhancing and encouraging a culture of philanthropy at Texas A&M University.

Fifteen Texas A&M students enrolled in Physics 206 (Classical Mechanics) this spring were honored as Pearson Mechanics Scholars after earning top-scoring marks on an end-of-semester challenge exam.

Armed with new Hubble Space Telescope data and an improved technique, a team of astronomers including Texas A&M professor Lucas Macri has made the most accurate measurement of the universe's expansion rate to date — a surprising 4-sigma discrepancy from Planck's prediction that strengthens the case for new physics.

Texas A&M astronomer Jonelle Walsh recently took time with reporters from local media outlets KBTX-News3 and the Bryan-College Station Eagle to discuss the historic first image of a black hole and its shadow, located at the heart of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, which Walsh has actually studied as a crucial anchor for the uppermost end of black hole properties and relationships.

Make a date for free family fun and experience the many wonders of science and technology at Texas A&M's 2019 Physics and Engineering Festival, set for Saturday, April 6, at the Mitchell Physics Building and kicking off with a 7 p.m. Friday, April 5 lecture, "Science in the Brewery!"

Two prominent Texas A&M University former students from the College of Science have earned selection by the college for its highest alumni honor, induction into its Academy of Distinguished Former Students. Col. (Ret) Harry Kay Lesser Jr., Class of 1970, of Herndon, Va.; and Joel E. Richter, M.D., Class of 1971, of Tampa, Fla., will […]

Texas A&M astronomer Jennifer Marshall has been selected as Project Scientist for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project, an 11.25-meter telescope being planned in Hawaii that's capable of studying up to 4,000 astronomical objects at once and positioned to lead the world in multi-object spectroscopy.

Texas A&M astronomer and Mitchell Institute executive director Robert Kennicutt Jr. has arrived in Aggieland in fitting style, earning the Royal Astronomical Society's highest honor, the 2019 Gold Medal, followed by the 2019 National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing for his field-defining work in astrophysics. Check out a bonus University of Arizona feature on the award-winning astronomer and life after "retirement!"