24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... by the two parties state that “the ILO-1 astrophysical observatory and research station will be the world’s first...lunar surface.” While the words ‘Lunar Observatory’ and ‘astrophysical observatory and research station’ conjure up ideas of a ...
24 January 2018
Scientists uncover common origin for ultrahigh-energy particles
... ten orders of magnitude in individual particle energy," said Kohta Murase, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. "The fact that the measured intensities of very high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... we are thriving on the only habitable world we truly know of, but a team of Italian scientists studying potentially disruptive astrophysical transients throughout cosmic history say that actually, the best place and time to live in the Milky...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... my PhD I was invited to Dushanbe to the Astrophysics Institute of Tajikistan Academy of Sciences, where I still...discoverer, Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, who worked in the Crimean astrophysics laboratory. When I first took an interest in astronomy,...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... very likely locations for the first forms of life to have emerged. Likewise, I immersed myself into the astrophysics side of astrobiology research. I worked on several extra-curricular projects at the University of London observatory, where we were...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... tool to help solve the 3He problem. About the author Dr Lizette Guzman-Ramirez is a post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Fellow at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands and a member of the ALMA Arc node...
