12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
... led by the University of Arizona. Known as Kamo`oalewa, this sizeable space-rock was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in 2016 and was aptly named from a word found in a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes to an offspring...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... be able to see them with the naked eye, scientists working with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have mapped out 21 new constellations from gamma-ray sources based on characters and famous objects with...
30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
...background light (EBL) by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; a feat that has never been done before, said... of 739 blazars used in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL). The background...
26 April 2019
As mystery of the Universe’s expansion rate widens, a simple solution is offered
... a different method to calculate the Hubble Constant. Instead of observing one Cepheid at a time with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as it makes its 90-minute orbit around Earth, a team of scientists including Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
...GJ 1132 b might actually have a water (H2O) rich atmosphere. Detecting molecular species on other celestial objects using telescopes on Earth comes with many challenges, as water in our atmosphere can interfere with observations. To help clarify what...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... any possible signatures of potential terrestrial-like planets. The new hardware includes an instrument module contracted to Kampf Telescope Optics (KTO), Munich, who will supply a novel detector calibration device and a wavefront sensor and plans...
