Redefining Astronomy With Tech: Investigating the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster
A team of international scientists, led by the University of Missouri’s Dr. Haojing Yan, used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover 14 new transient objects within the Christmas […]
How Likely is an Asteroid Collision with Earth?
Every month, there seems to be a fresh news alert about an asteroid “hurtling toward Earth.” Well, “alert” is perhaps too strong a word; in most cases, it is simply […]
Super-Earths are Bigger, More Common and More Habitable Than Earth Itself
Chris Impey, University of Arizona Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting […]
Astronomy’s 10-Year Wish List: Big Money, Bigger Telescopes and the Biggest Questions in Science
Chris Impey, University of Arizona It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Friday, March 12, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]