Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io - the most volcanically active location in the solar system - Cornell astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating. "Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes '03, M.Eng. '04, the Jennifer and Albe

London, UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
A newly released catalogue containing data from millions of distant galaxies, providing distance measurements with an unparalleled level of precision, has been made available today. This large-scale effort was made possible by The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration involving 14 institutions across six countries, including the University of Portsmou

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
UTHealth Houston has partnered with The Ocean Corporation to expand its Space Medicine Training Fellowship program. This collaboration introduces an intensive two-week training that focuses on hyperbaric technologies and analog environments similar to those encountered by astronauts during space walks, also known as extravehicular activities (EVAs). The enhanced curriculum aims to provide

On 18–19 September, Europe’s space industry from start-up companies to large system integrators gathered at ESA–ESTEC in the Netherlands for Industry Space Days 2024.

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has snapped a souvenir of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert in Nevada.

XRISM revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. Astronomers presented the first scientific results of the new X-ray telescope today, less than a year after the telescope’s launch.

Image: A geological puzzle