08 September 2015
Is EGS8p7 the most distant galaxy from Earth?
..., has recently resulted in controversy). It is an absolutely fascinating instrument, and the way it gathers information about the cosmos differs radically from traditional methods of calculating redshift. You can read more about it here. For now...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... of the most profound questions that cosmologists have been eager to answer since we understood our place in the cosmos, is how did it all begin and was there anything before our known Universe? Now however, scientists...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... released earlier this year in February, the discovery rocked the science community and a new window on the cosmos was opened. The event, termed GW150914, was resolved to an area of approximately 600 square degrees in the southern...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... incorporated in Hawaii who advocate that, “the primary goal of the ILO mission is to expand human understanding of the cosmos through observation from our moon." The announcement by the two parties state that “the ILO-1 astrophysical...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
...-used lunar-resonant orbit and it has been chosen to give the spacecraft a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, while helping to keep radiation impact to a minimum. To boldly go where no observatory has gone before (in orbit), TESS will...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... and black holes in our own galaxy, and now we are observing these exotic stars across the cosmos,” said co-author Bruce Gossan of the University of California at Berkeley. “What an exciting time to be alive, to see instruments like...
