Christian Hansen's photo of the TRACERS mission launch won first place in the faculty/staff/researcher category of the Capture Your Research! Photo Competition. Sponsored by NEXUS | Artineers and the Lichtenberger Engineering Library at the University of Iowa, Capture Your Research! is an image competition where students, faculty, and staff submit one image that captures the essence of their research.

Dr. Ken Gayley, an astronomy professor at the University of Iowa, joins LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall to answer questions about the online conspiracies that suggest 3I/ATLAS might be an artificial object or even a probe from another civilization. Gayley emphasizes that objects like 3I/ATLAS are likely natural, formed in different star systems under circumstances we don’t yet understand.

The CLAS Grant Support Office (GSO) is pleased to welcome Kimberly Gray as our new post-award grant manager for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the college’s top department for external grants and contracts. The Department of Physics and Astronomy boasts a research portfolio of $27 million in fiscal year 2025.

In a segment on LiveNow from Fox News, Professor Ken Gayley helped debunk moon landing conspiracy theories.