UNLV programs, faculty, and fellowships help propel student research and future careers in academia.

Newly published research builds on team’s landmark 2020 discovery of a room-temperature superconductor by replicating results with even greater efficiency. 

Qiang Zhu receives NSF CAREER Award for his work to guide the development of organic materials important to energy and memory storage.

UNLV astrophysicist Zhaohuan Zhu among featured speakers at international conference at M Resort May 1-6; more than a dozen UNLV faculty and students participating.  

Findings could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets.

New study by international team of scientists identifies polarization as key trait that may reveal the origin of the powerful millisecond-long cosmic radio explosions.  

UNLV astrophysicist Jason Steffen explains key differences between Webb and Hubble.

UNLV researchers made international headlines this year with their discoveries. Here's a roundup of some of our top stories of 2021.

A flurry of more than 1,650 FRBs detected by FAST telescope over 47 days in 2019 unlocks clues to the nature and location of the powerful millisecond-long cosmic radio explosions.

Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation.

Synakowski, currently the vice president for research and economic development at the University of Wyoming, will join UNLV Aug. 30.

At UNLV, astronomy Ph.D. graduate Jeremy Smallwood racks up scientific publications rather than stressing about individual grades.