Physical Sciences

Mercedes Richards elected Councilor of American Astronomical Society
Mercedes Richards
MINERVA Telescope Array Dedicated in Ceremony on Mount Hopkins
A view of the MINERVA telescope array and MINERVA-Red on Mount Hopkins.
Booker named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Squire Booker
Astrobiology students explore alien environment on Earth
Penn State astrobiology students examine a sulfidic cave in Italy where white biofilm grows on the walls. Credit: Kyle Rybacki
Schreyer Scholar credited with co-discovery of new pulsar: Never-before-seen star found during NSF-funded educational outreach program
Artist’s impression of pulsar PSR J1930-1852 in orbit around a companion neutron star. Discovered by a team of high school students, including current Schreyer Scholar Cecilia McGough, this pulsar has the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star. Image: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Physics major Jacob Wisser awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Jacob Wisser
Mallouk elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Tom Mallouk
Peter Hohman to Represent Penn State's Eberly College of Science as Student Marshal at Spring Commencement 2015
Student Marshal
Giant gorging black holes may explain rapid growth of infant universe
Astronomers have studied 51 quasars with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and have found they may represent an unusual population of black holes that consume excessive amounts of matter. Credits: Illustration: CXC/M. Weiss, X-ray images: ASA/CXC/Penn State/B. Luo et al.
New NASA coalition to lead search for life on distant worlds includes two leaders at Penn State
Click on the image for a high-resolution image. The search for life beyond our solar system requires unprecedented cooperation across scientific disciplines. NASA's NExSS collaboration includes those who study Earth as a life-bearing planet (lower right), those researching the diversity of solar system planets (left), and those on the new frontier, discovering worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy (upper right).Credits: NASA
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