NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will search for, and could measure the mass of, isolated neutron stars using astrometric microlensing.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. Jennifer Lotz, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, and 448 other AAAS members as Fellows of the AAAS. Election as an AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor bestowed upon select AAAS members by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
A new study by a team led by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Ambassador Marcel Corchado Albelo takes an unexpected approach: instead of looking directly at where the energy is generated—high in the Sun’s faint upper atmosphere—it looks at subtle shapes closer to the solar surface.
New Jersey Institute of Technology SOC Chair Dale Gary was formerly a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Director of the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array radio facility, which he designed and built. His Ph.D. Degree is in AstroGeophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests […]
A team of scientists led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory developed a new physics-based method to assign magnetic polarities to far-side sunspots. By characterizing regions already identified through helioseismology, this breakthrough turns basic detections into detailed magnetic maps of the invisible solar surface to improve space weather forecasting.
NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show us changes in the nebula on human time scales with an improved camera.
With the release of the cloud-hosted Roman Research Nexus, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) provides astronomers around the world an environment where they can prepare to work with the massive data stream expected from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos ever conducted, finished all observations for its originally planned 3D map of the Universe
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to directly image 29 Cygni b, which weighs 15 times Jupiter. They found evidence for heavy chemical elements like carbon and oxygen, which strongly suggests it formed like a planet by accretion within a protoplanetary disk.
A new synthesis of astronomical measurements confirms a persistent mismatch that could point to physics beyond current models.
Scientists at NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, have submitted an unprecedented set of asteroid detections to the IAU Minor Planet Center, including hundreds of distant worlds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.
Using the NSF Daniel k. Inouye solar telescope, scientists captured highly detailed measurements of a fading solar flare. The findings reveal gaps in current models of how flares heat the sun’s lower atmosphere, pointing to the need for more comprehensive theories.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more layered understanding of the gas giant’s atmosphere.
In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule
Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever identified — an ancient stellar relic that preserves the chemical imprint of the very first stars in the Universe. This star, named PicII-503, resides in the tiny, ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II.
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