Voyager 2 data from Uranus and Neptune revealed their magnetic fields are non-dipolar and disordered, a stark contrast to the dipolar fields observed on Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Astronomer Burkhard ...

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Over the past 20 years, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in physics has more than doubled: from just under 4,000 per year in the late 1990s to nearly 9,000 per year today, according to the ...

Australian astronomers have built themselves one of the world’s best ‘wide-field’ digital cameras, with chips that now outstrip photographic plates, according to the Federal Minister for Education, ...

Katherine Alatalo, a graduate student in astronomy at the University of California–Berkeley, spent months wondering what was wrong with her. Why did she feel anxious and unfocused? Why couldn’t she ...

Correction: The name of the high school Carl Fields attended in Arizona was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. Carl Fields sent a "How it started vs. How it's going" tweet earlier this ...