
BYU Physics and Astronomy student Benjamin Proudfoot recently published research in the prestigious journal Nature Communications that solves the mystery of the icy dwarf planet Haumea's formation.
Archived News Stories
- Particle Fever at International Cinema
- Dr. Steve Turley -NSF Program Officer
- Planetarium Updates
- How Physics Students Thrive in a Pandemic
- New Professor Dr. Benjamin Boizelle
- Dr. Dennis Della Corte launches Consortium of Molecular Design
- American Association of Physics Teachers Meet in Provo
- Dr. Scott Sommerfeldt Awarded an ASA Silver Medal
- Sabbatical at Cambridge for Dr. Gus Hart
- Dr. Richard Sandberg, Brings Ultrafast Optics to Materials Research
- Mark Transtrum: BYU Early Career Scholarship Award
- Eric Hirschman honored for exceptional service
- Darin Ragozzine receives Young Scholar Award
- Technology transfer award for a quieter airplane toilet
- BYU Physics & Astronomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Brian Anderson
- See the Stars Even Better at the ESC Observatory
- New Mill Becomes Part of the P&A Family
- Catching up on Five Years
- Gary Stradling
- Scott Sommerfeldt, ASA Vice President
- LCA Postings
- Professor Receives Early Career Award
- Professional Faculty Job Opening
- BYU Physics Student Highlighted by APS
- New Campus 0.6-m Telescope
- How Many Earth-Like Planets Exist in the Universe?
- Battle of the Motors
- Researchers invent a quieter airplane toilet
- BYU Top in Addressing Shortage of Physics Teachers
- BYU study produces 3D images
- "Playing flag football at BYU has allowed me to make some great friendships"
- Physics Employee is Student Employee of the Year
- Astronomer co-authors paper in Nature
- Producing stronger, more pliable metals
- Hottest known planet discovery published in Nature
- A Master, A Teacher, A Leader
- Lego figurines don’t stand a chance against time reversal
- BYU researchers help discover massive exoplanet
- Sunshine matters a lot to mental health
- Dr. Neilsen Balances Family, Research, Classes, and Receives Award
- Professor Receives Outstanding Referee Award
- BYU Produces the Most Certified Physics Teachers
- BYU GALs Program Sheds Light on Physics
- Searching for Alien Comets: BYU Researchers Create Guidebook to Aid in First Discovery
- Physics Professor Makes Nanomagnetism Discovery
- Vatican Astronomer Bridges Faith and Science
- Harvey Fletcher, BYU’s first Physics graduate wins a posthumous grammy award
- BYU Professor Honored by Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
- Physicists Can Be Writers, Too
- Physics Alumnus Improves Radar Systems
- Award-Winning Professor Puts Students First
- Lighting up the Science Center
- For the Love of Teaching… and Physics
- The Sound of Music, According to Physicists
- Burning Calories to Better Science
- Physicist Helps Students Shine
- Professor’s Curiosity Drives Research
- By Small and Simple Magnets Are Great Things Brought to Pass
- Craters Come to Astrofest
- Astrofest Brings the Stars to BYU
- BYU’s Physics Teaching Program Gains National Attention
- Student’s Nanocrystals Make Him a Wanted Man
- BYU uses planet-hunting satellite to observe supermassive black hole
- Google Glass adaptation opens the universe to deaf students
- BYU researchers create tiny nano-device in newest gene therapy advance
- Prestigious publication for ‘sloppy’ research
- The science of stadium sound
- Tiny cupid proof that BYU students love nanotechnology
- Harold Stokes: Dr. Superman
- Movement of black holes powers the universe’s brightest lights
- Rockets, gongs and Gatling guns make really loud science
- Scientists grow micro-machines (and "nano Jimmer") from carbon
- BYU telescope captures Halloween sights in the stars?
- Futuristic computing designs inside beetle scales
- Harvey Fletcher is Honored Founder for BYU Homecoming 2010
- BYU study: Halley’s comet first observed by ancient Greeks?
- BYU physics professor named fellow by National Science Foundation
- BYU's Scott D. Sommerfeldt elected to ASA Executive Council
- BYU study adds a ‘twist’ to stars’ death throes
- Nature and electronics meet: How to make a tiny wire and connect it to DNA
- Elder Richard G. Scott dedicates Royden G. Derrick Planetarium at BYU Sept. 28
- BYU undergraduate makes 'cents' of rare coins
- BYU scientists discuss yodeling, jet crackle and hearing
- BYU students to compete in Mars rover event in southern Utah desert
- BYU professor receives national acoustic education award
- BYU study another step in the march toward better superconductors
- BYU students experiment onboard NASA's "Vomit Comet"
- BYU mirror headed to space on Venus Express
- BYU astronomy department unveils new planetarium
- BYU physics professor receives national recognition
- BYU physicists quiet fans in computers, office equipment
- Preparing earthlings for Mars
- BYU physics professor appointed scholar-in-residence