24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...task, so to overcome the problem, Jon Zink, a UCLA postdoctoral scholar, created a programme to weed out instrument noise ... the exoplanet population as a whole,” said Erik Petigura, a UCLA astronomy professor and co-author of the research. Some of the...
15 August 2018
Space is dark and not as full of galaxies as we thought, new study shows
...penetrate interstellar gas. "It is not that the opacity is a cause of the lack of galaxies," said Steven Furlanetto, a UCLA professor of astronomy and a co-author of the research. "Instead, it's the other way around." The scarcity of galaxies in this...
17 March 2017
Giant Jupiter-like planet gives a rare peek at alternative planet formation
... just formed its planetary system," said Smadar Naoz, a UCLA assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and a co-author ...had billions of years of evolution," said Michael Fitzgerald, UCLA associate professor of physics and astronomy, and the study...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... passes through our own. Photo credits: 1I/’Oumuamua: ESO/M. Kornmesser; 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS: NASA/ESA /Jewitt (UCLA) As solar systems come into being, their host stars in the cluster are gravitationally attracted to each other...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
...] Space.com recently caught up with Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell, a professor of geophysics and space physics at UCLA, to discuss Vesta, Ceres and what Dawn's legacy will be. Space.com: So Dawn already studied Vesta up close...
20 December 2017
Methane-producing microorganisms suggest life in the Universe is common
...1993, but it is only in the past few years that researchers, led by J. William Schopf, a professor of paleobiology at UCLA College, have been able to use a method to reveal the the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 isotopes – information scientists ...
