September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... life as we know it. Stars also link apparently disparate branches of physics, from the microscopic quantum world to cosmological general relativity. Binary stars are particularly crucial to our understanding of the Universe on all these scales. They...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... times the field of view with the same resolving power, enabling revolutionary science in both exoplanets and cosmology. During its five-year mission, WFIRST’s exoplanet microlensing survey will discover thousands of new exoplanets, completing...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...,” according to Bandyopadhyay’s description of his radical concept, could “potentially make tremendous scientific discoveries in fields of cosmology and extrasolar planets.” An added advantage is that as it will be tucked away out of sight from Earth...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
... in-between away from everything else at an accelerating pace. Now however, scientists are casting doubt on this standard cosmological model as new data has become available. The data relates to studies on a type of exploding star known as a Type...
05 April 2021
No dark energy needed, just dark matter with a magnetic force new study says
... component of the constant could be used to explain this newly discovered force dubbed ‘dark energy’ and in modern cosmology the constant is now associated with the energy density of the vacuum of space. This energy density is thought...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... and a member of the Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration at NASA Goddard, where he pursues connections between cosmology, biology, and planetary science. Joseph Silk is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA...
