First-year UTM student Riyam Ojaimi launches Space Point, an astronomy publication At the age of five, Riyam Ojaimi first experienced curiosity for space 一 planning a mass migration to Saturn, which later developed into a lifelong fascination with quantum physics and astrophysics.  Ojaimi 一 now a first-year life sciences student at UTM 一 recalls discovering…

Precious data from space missions, going back decades, is being carefully restored and archived by scientists at NASA’s Space Science Date Coordinated Archive, allowing researchers today to make new discoveries by delving into the history books. “What’s surprising is how much of this information is either lost or at least not in a condition that…

Using one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth, astronomers have witnessed an intimidating 2-million-mile-per-hour (3.2-million-kilometer-per-hour) smash-up between galaxies at a dangerous “cosmic crossroads,” the site of multiple previous collisions. The collision occurred when the galaxy NGC 7318b ripped through the site of previous galactic smash-ups, a galactic grouping called “Stephan’s Quintet.” The impact created…

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be caused by the black hole duo disrupting a massive gas cloud — a phenomenon researchers say is the first of its…

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. In a stunning scientific and technological feat, a group of astronomers said Thursday that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was…

With so much happening overhead and beyond, where can one turn for the latest information? You can start your own website and compile all of the discoveries, theories, research and other things that interest you. Well back in 1999, that is exactly what Fraser Cain did. Cain is the founder, curator, editor, now podcaster and…

What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers have made a first-time discovery of the youngest exoplanet, TIDYE-1b, which is estimated to be only 3 million years old. For comparison, scientists estimate that it…

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft as it approaches the International Space Station (ISS) on June 6. Credit: NASA In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing may shed its space business to focus on commercial aircraft and defense systems. This could be due in part to this summer’s test flight of its Starliner crew transport to…

Downsizing: about 325 people, representing roughly 5% of the lab’s employees, will be affected by the cuts (courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced another round of staff layoffs. The move, which began in mid-November, involves about 325 people, representing 5% of the lab’s employees. It follows layoffs in February of about 530…