NASA's HEliophysics Strategic Technology Office (HESTO) has selected Prof. David Miles from the University of Iowa and Prof. Wojciech Miloch of the University of Oslo to provide a fluxgate magnetometer for the upcoming Norwegian ICI-5bis sounding rocket mission.

Although you won’t be able to see a man on it or cheese in it — or see it at all with your naked eye, in fact — Earth is getting a “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized asteroid orbiting the planet actually is much closer than the moon you can see.

The Hawkeyes on Science team participated in the Family Weekend Science Expo on Friday, Sept. 13 at the University of Iowa Sciences Library.

Wayne Polyzou, a professor in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Iowa, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to do work overseas in Poland and Ukraine.

The University of Iowa has received nearly $1.7 million from NASA to fund the OCHRE student-led sounding rocket mission that will study cusp dynamics in the Earth’s magnetosphere and help train the next generation of space physicists and instrumentalists.

A group of researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has received $470,310 in funding from the NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) Program to collaborate on the POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) mission.

For decades, University of Iowa-built scientific instruments onboard the two Voyager spacecraft have yielded groundbreaking discoveries as the vessels explore the cosmic unknown.

David Nataf joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy in August as an assistant professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics research area. Nataf studies populations of stars to use them to understand better the history of our galaxy (The Milky Way) and the University as a whole. His research uses data from various ground-based observatories (based in Chile, Hawaii, etc.) and present and upcoming space-based observatories such as the Hubble, James Webb, and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopes.

Several local news organizations did stories about the University of Iowa's $1.495 million award from NASA’s Safety, Security, and Mission Services division for state-of-the-art equipment needed to build instruments for future missions. The funds will also provide students with more opportunities to obtain instrument-building knowledge and training for careers in space exploration. The Support for Space Technology Innovation and Education award originated with Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who toured research areas in Van Allen Hall on Aug. 23 to learn more about the Department's efforts to build spaceflight instrumentation and its programs giving students in STEM fields hands-on experience with flight hardware.

The University of Iowa, a long-standing leader in the design and building of instruments for space-based missions, has been awarded nearly $1.5 million from NASA to purchase state-of-the-art equipment needed to build instruments for future missions. The funds will also provide students more opportunities to obtain the instrument-building knowledge and training for careers in space exploration.