If you've ever whirled a ball attached to a string around your head and then let it go, you know the great speed that can be achieved through a slingshot maneuver. Similarly, NASA's Juno spacecraft will be passing within some 350 miles of Earth's surface Wednesday, Oct. 9, before it slingshots off into space on a historic exploration of Jupiter.

Congratulations to Timothy Harrington-Taber for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Heavy Flavor Decay of Zgamma at CDF." "...

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first manmade object to enter interstellar space, it claimed an iconic place in the history of space exploration—and underscored the University of Iowa's role and legacy among the stars.

Congratulations to Thomas Brantseg for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants and Interactions with Their Surroundings." "...