12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... from Earth,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. “And that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before — to see the nearest stars...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
...,” says Doug Biesecker, panel co-chair and solar physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. “The Sun’s impact on our daily lives is real and is there. SWPC is staffed 24/7, 365 days a year because...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... molecules from roaming around the surface too far. The team, headed by Paul Hayne at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, suggest that approximately 40,000 square kilometres (km2) of the lunar surface has the capacity...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... Trump, considers a threat to American orbital assets. According to data released by staff at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Russia conducted a test of its direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile system on Tuesday (15 December). The system...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... Survey, launched in 2018, into their model simulations. The team, made up of scientists at Northwestern, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... the field can spiral inwards to the event horizon,” explains Jason Dexter, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, US, and Coordinator of the EHT Theory Working Group. The team plan on completing further observations of M87...
