September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...that many of the trillion or so planets that populate the Milky Way are carpeted with life. And surveys routinely show that the ... signals that are either deliberately or inadvertently beamed our way. This search, like the public’s interest in aliens...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
... Astrophysics Lab and lead author on the study. The Milky Way is really the only galaxy astronomers have where the interaction...to a passing star, forming a stellar binary. "It's an obvious way to want to look for black holes," Hailey said, "but the...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... wobble method, but the transit method also has a high rate of false detections. What is needed is a new way to narrow the search for extragalactic exoplanets and searching using x-rays is one of the possibilities that Rosanne...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... soaked my back as I peered upward in search of that moving, beeping beacon. The sky was crystal clear, the Milky Way unpolluted by city lights. Sputnik would kick off a decade-long race to the Moon. Ten years; why...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... that “the ILO-1 astrophysical observatory and research station will be the world’s first instrument to image the Milky Way Galaxy and to conduct international astrophysical observations and communications from the lunar surface.” While the words...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... theories, and help optimize future missions dedicated to finding exoplanets." According to UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews: "Our Milky Way has as many as 400 billion stars, with seven per cent of them being G-type. That means less...
