We’d like to thank the members of the local organizing committee: J. Soltis (chair), A. M. Delgado, and M. Yunus and the STScI Events Planning Group, especially S. Smith and V. Ramnarine. We’d also like to acknowledge the generous support of travel grants provided by ESA’s Space Science Faculty.
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, the father of radio astronomy is born. Though his ideas seemed wild at the time, much of Nikola Tesla’s work laid the foundation for future astronomy research and robotic space exploration. Credit: Napoleon Sarony/Wikimedia Inventor Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in what is…
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As scientists warn that a powerful El Niño, a climate pattern pushing temperatures up, could develop in the coming years, new research suggests a controversial form of solar geoengineering might one day help reduce the natural occurence’s most destructive impacts. The study, published this week in Science Advances by researchers at the Scripps Institution of…
A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemical evolution of primitive asteroids, and the ingredients that may have helped make life possible throughout the early solar system. This rapid recovery began when an amateur astronomer in New Jersey…
After a long time of work, I'm making my master's thesis project public: a CUDA-accelerated numerical relativity raytracer for Schwarzschild black holes that compares seven different integration methods, including two novel integrators I derived specifically for this problem. My thesis was inspired by some of the results in the Nasa, Orbits, Flight Book 1963 What…
An artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting its star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have discovered a rocky planet that is likely to have an atmosphere — and could be a host for life. In a paper published this week in Science1, researchers report their observations of helium escaping from the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet called…