An international team of astronomers, including a key researcher from McMaster, has discovered a unique Earth-sized exoplanet that may be carpeted with volcanoes. LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an…
Category: Astronomy
Remarkably small and distant galaxy found in Early Universe
Galaxy is the smallest ever discovered at this distance—around 500 million years after the Big Bang. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope,…
Understanding boiling for better nuclear industry and space missions
PhD candidate at MIT Florian Chavagnat seeks to answer fundamental questions about heat transfer in boiling that will shape the success of nuclear power plants — and extended missions in…
10-Month Voyage Proves Solar Cell Material Survives, Thrives in Space
Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown was hoping to see anything but mustard yellow. When the NASA research electrical engineer clicked open the photo of a small solar cell material sample – a…
NASA Harnesses US Navy Spinning Device to Simulate Spaceflight
A view of the cockpit of the Kraken, a device that can be configured to disorient those strapped inside. The parallel tracks on the left and right allow the cockpit…
Juice’s RIME antenna breaks free: Jupiter’s explorations to go on with fewer troubles
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy Juice’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket. Illustration of the…
First radio detection of Type Ia supernova explosion captured by e-MERLIN telescope at Jodrell Bank
After decades of trying, astronomers have found the origin of a Type Ia supernova explosion using radio emissions, thanks to the e-MERLIN telescope network based at Jodrell Bank, The University of Manchester. Lovell…
Martian crust like heavy armour
A strong quake in the last year of the NASA Mars InSight mission enabled researchers at ETH Zurich to determine the global thickness and density of the planet’s crust. On…
Going to the dark side: helping NASA understand moon’s origins
Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon.…
Are Earth and Venus the only volcanic planets? Not anymore.
Imagine an Earth-sized planet that’s not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half in permanent night, and it’s carpeted with active volcanoes. Astronomers…
