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From Lab Bench to Launch Pad

18 Sep 25

Will Foxx

Physicist Brings High Energy to UMD With Laser-Made Plasmas

10 Sep 25

The Makani galaxy

UMD-Led Study Discovers Warm Space Dust in Distant Place

03 Sep 25

An image of the moon's Sinus Aestuum region

Unusual Deposits on Moon’s Near Side Suggest Possibility of ‘Unique Volcanic Process’

28 Aug 25

GRAD-MAP 2025 summer scholars Ridmi Madarasinghe, Alanis Alvarado and Joanna Chimalilo

GRAD-MAP Students, Mentors ‘Learn From Each Other’

20 Aug 25

This diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. It will make its closest approach to the Sun in October.

Zwicky Transient Facility Nabs an Interstellar Visitor

11 Jul 25

Image of UMD students at graduation in caps and gowns

UMD Among Top 5 Doctorate Producers in 5 Critical Tech Areas

08 Jul 25

An illustration showing Parker Solar Probe's trajectory crossing the heliospheric current sheet

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun

05 Jun 25

Serena Cronin

Studying Dust in the Wind

03 Jun 25

An image of the sky showing the region around ASKAP J1832-0911

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Milky Way Object That Emits Radio Waves and X-rays

30 May 25

Brenda Dingus

UMD’s Brenda Dingus Elected to National Academy of Sciences

27 May 25

Ell Bogat

Exoplanet Explorer Helps Astronomers See the Unseeable

19 May 25

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