Space & Planetary Science
James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet
A team of European astronomers, co-led by researchers from the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, used recent observations made with...
ALMA demonstrates highest resolution yet
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has demonstrated the highest resolution yet with observations of an old star. The observations show...
Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence...
Downloading NASA’s dark matter data from above the clouds
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system...
Franck Marchis of SETI Institute honored as 2023 Fellow by California Academy of Sciences
November 14, 2023, Mountain View, CA - Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute, was appointed...
Webb Telescope’s Marcia Rieke awarded Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal
Dr. Marcia Rieke, principal investigator for the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s (ASP) 2023...
Using eclipses to calculate the transparency of Saturn’s rings
A Lancaster University PhD student has measured the optical depth of Saturn’s rings using a new method based on how...
UTA developing more powerful rocket engines for space travel
A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher has received a NASA grant to use rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs)...
NJIT scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have detailed radio observations...
Second-most distant galaxy discovered using James Webb Space Telescope
The second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed have been discovered in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster,...
Milky Way-like galaxy found in the early universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has...
NASA’s Webb, Hubble combine to create most colorful view of universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416....
Greenland’s glacier retreat rate has doubled over past two decades
EVANSTON, Ill. — Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern...
Scientists find 14 new transient objects in space by peering through the ‘Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster’
An international team of scientists, led by University of Missouri’s Haojing Yan, used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to...
NASA’s Webb findings support long-proposed process of planet formation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing...
$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond earth
$200m Gift Propels Scientific Research in the Search for Life Beyond Earth Credit: SETI Institute/Simon Steel $200m Gift Propels Scientific...
Scientists use SERS technology to accurately monitor single-molecule diffusion behavior
Recently, a research team led by Professor Yang Liangbao from Institute of Health and Medical Technology of the Hefei Institutes...
New nanosatellite to test novel AI technologies on board
After more than two years of development, the nanosatellite SONATE-2 is about to be launched. The lift-off into orbit by...
SwRI-led Lucy observes first-ever contact binary orbiting an asteroid
After the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, the team discovered that it is even more...
The CNES, the Institut Pasteur and SupBiotech are ready to send the “Cerebral Ageing” experiment to the International Space Station
Scheduled for early November, the Cerebral Ageing experiment will depart for the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida,...