Delegates from around 200 countries are convened at the United Nations COP28 summit in Dubai to assess the action they are taking to combat the climate crisis. With satellites fundamental…
Category: Astronomy
A Star Is Born: UVA Undergrad Leads Team Studying Stellar Formation
For most of us on Earth, Sagittarius is simply the constellation that some see in the shape of an archer drawing a bow. But viewed from space through NASA’s James…
Exoplanet That Is Too Big for Its Sun
A research team, including UCI astronomers, has discovered an exoplanet far too massive for its sun, casting doubt on what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their…
Disc Around Star Observed in Another Galaxy for the First Time
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rotating disc of material circling a massive young star in a nearby galaxy for the first time. This mosaic shows, at its center, a…
Astronomers Find ‘Tilted’ Planets Even in Pristine Solar Systems
Understanding that even planets in pristine solar systems have some orbital tilt puts Earth’s solar system into a larger perspective, researchers say. Scientists have long puzzled over why all planets…
ESA’s Cheops Helps Unlock Rare Six-Planet System
ESA’s CHaracterising Exoplanet Satellite (Cheops) has provided the crucial pieces of data to understand a mysterious exoplanet system that had been perplexing researchers for years. The star HD110067 lies around…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27…
Telescope Detects Second Highest-Energy Cosmic Ray Ever
In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our…
The Moon is 40M Years Older Than Previously Thought
Researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s moon by analyzing tiny lunar zircon crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. Although previous assessments estimated the moon to be over…
Australian Scientists Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever Discovered
In a tiny fraction of a second the radio burst released the equivalent of our Sun’s total emission over 30 years. A new generation of radio telescopes will allow us…
