May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... and exposure to potential career paths, reinforcing LPI’s role in shaping future generations of planetary scientists. Origins and evolution From its earliest days, LPI organised seminars and symposia to foster scientific exchange. Among the first...
08 December 2015
New light shed on the mystery of 'Born Again' stars
...are the best laboratory for the study of stellar evolution. Nonetheless, only white dwarfs formed in the last...blue straggler, is therefore important for testing models of stellar evolution. Other theories have also been postulated for the formation of...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
...that it is likely the lower-mass remnants of normal stellar evolution, the black holes and neutron stars, may play a crucial...The Andromeda Galaxy in ultraviolet light taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the swath of sky captured by NuSTAR. ...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
... ageing stars that are of particular interest in terms of formation and evolution, as one day our Sun will evolve to be a red giant... however, it could simply be a product of stellar evolution, whereby mass-loss from the evolving central star disrupts...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... the first stars and to track the binary stellar evolution of the individual systems until these massive compact remnants merge... the chemical elements, to the overall formation and evolution of galaxies. However, scientists do not yet have ...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... to thus test and refine models of galaxy formation and evolution in the early Universe, lead author Fabio Pacucci of Scuola.... It is designed to focus on two critical epochs in cosmic evolution, “Cosmic Dawn", less than 1 billion years after the Big ...
