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AXIS and PRIMA

Two UMD Astronomy Space Probes Advance to Next Round of $1 Billion NASA Mission Selection

03 Oct 24

Catching Cosmic Waves

20 Sep 24

Parker Solar Probe in front of the sun

UMD Physicists Advance NASA’s Mission to ‘Touch the Sun’

12 Sep 24

Aneesh Anandanatarajan

Curious About the Cosmos

12 Sep 24

NASA’s DART Impact Permanently Changed the Shape and Orbit of Asteroid Moon

23 Aug 24

WASP-39 b

UMD Astronomers Investigate Eternal Darkness and Daylight on Distant World

15 Aug 24

Patrick Whelley Reddit AMA verification photo

Astronomy Associate Research Scientist Patrick Whelley Answers Questions About the Moon

19 Jul 24

HD 189733b

A Nearby Exoplanet Reeks of Rotten Eggs—And That’s a Good Thing

15 Jul 24

Illuminating Science Through Stellar Research and Outreach

01 Jul 24

Schweickart prize graphic

UMD Astronomy Ph.D. Student Joseph DeMartini Awarded Inaugural Schweickart Prize From the B612 Foundation

28 Jun 24

A view of the Cosmic Gems arc compared to a wide-field view of many galaxies against a black background

UMD Astronomers Help Discover Compact Star Clusters in Distant, Infant Galaxy

25 Jun 24

Moon Orbiting ‘Dinky’ Asteroid is Actually Two Tiny Moons Stuck Together

29 May 24

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