Physics & Astronomy

An international group of collaborators including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a nearby M dwarf star....

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway announced today the appointment of Dr. Arash Mafi as interim dean of UNM’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mafi takes over for Mark Peceny, who has served as...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded The University of New Mexico a three-year, $500,000 grant to develop software that utilizes Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to capture and process data from astronomical telescopes. GPUs render the...

Everyone has sat outside on a sunny day and been warmed by the sun’s rays. This happens through a process known as radiative heat transfer: the sun emits light (electromagnetic radiation), which travels to the Earth and heats up the objects that absorb...

The 2021 Goldwater Foundation Awards were just announced, with all four nominees from The University of New Mexico named winners – all women. Ryla Josephine Cantergiani, Anna Janicek, Abigail Pribisova and Sophia Salbato are among just 410 Goldwater...

The estate gift from an alumnus of The University of New Mexico School of Engineering will significantly benefit research, discovery and teaching programs in two schools. The donation, from the estate of Robert...

University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) annually compiles a Year-in-Review highlighting its research news across campus during the course of the calendar year. Below is a select list of 2020 stories highlighting student, faculty, staff and alumni...

The Micius Foundation today named three scientists, including University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Emeritus Carlton Caves, as recipients of the Micius Quantum Prize 2020 which focuses on the broadly defined field of quantum metrology,...

Two graduate students from The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics and Astronomy, including Andrew Forbes and Anupam Mitra, won awards at the 2020 Four Corners Sectional (Virtual) Meeting of the American Physical Society held...

James L. Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of New Mexico associate professor, assisted by local high school student Ennis Quinn, has been using computational modeling to explain unusual patterns in...