18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... Grus. The yet unnamed planet discovered by an international trio of astronomers whose lead author S. Satyal is based at the University of Texas, state in their research paper that the planet was found using numerical simulations from data obtained...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... there anything before our known Universe? Now however, scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and their colleagues may...can be mapped to provide spatial variations of the primordial universe, the one thing not fully determined is a ‘time ...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... Moon. Now, a group of astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin would like to revive the idea so that they...to collect as much light from them as possible. “We live in a universe of stars,” Bromm said. “It is a key question how star formation ...
October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
...reduced barriers to entry for Earth observation missions, enabling universities, startups and developing nations to deploy space-based ...from the Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
...their own indigenously developed launch vehicles. Professor David Alexander, Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University, Houston, Texas said: “As low-earth orbit becomes more accessible, what’s often called the “democratisation” of space...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... Award from the Earthlight Foundation in 2024. Dr Kelly Weinersmith is adjunct faculty in the BioSciences Department at Rice University, Houston, Texas, and Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
