04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... is the astronomical event that keeps on giving,” said J. Craig Wheeler, a co-author on the study also from the University of Texas. “We are learning so much about the astrophysics of the densest known objects from this one event.” If follow...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
.... The scientists behind the recent study, whose lead author is Stefano Nerozzi, a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), think that the alternating layers of ice and sand are a result of retreating...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... technology in 1974 by NASA. The X-Ray Computed Microtomography scan (top) above was taken in 2019 at the University of Texas at Austin. This is one example of the technological developments that are enabling a new generation to conduct new science...
23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... have been enough liquid water at some point for supporting microbial life," said Jack Holt of the University of Texas, a co-author of the Utopia paper who is a SHARAD co-investigator. "It's important to expand what we know about the distribution and...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...created from the individual paintings by children at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that were then beautifully ... Challenge quilt at the 2016 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, USA. When we go back to the Moon and when...
08 December 2015
New light shed on the mystery of 'Born Again' stars
... are. Now though, this mystery has hopefully been resolved by a team of astronomers led by Natalie Gosnell, at the University of Texas, who have used the Hubble Space Telescope to ascertain why “blue stragglers” look hotter and bluer...
