Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada and Nick Risinger Two nearly-identically sized worlds — Eris and Pluto — float distantly in the same frozen region of our outer solar system. A NASA spacecraft has visited Pluto, but not Eris, and each is so distant that it’s hard to study by telescope. So,…

HELSINKI — China has added a United Arab Emirates’ university to its list of partners for the country’s moon base ambitions. A Memorandum of Understanding between the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) and the University of Sharjah (UoS), United Arab Emirates (UAE), on cooperation on the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) was signed Nov. 14,…

One of NASA’s greatest and most public goals is to find habitable planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. The stars NASA has identified as the most promising candidates for habitability are M dwarfs, also known as red dwarfs. These stars are less than half the Sun’s mass, less than a fifteenth of the Sun’s…

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An astronaut with heritage from Iran spotted her parents’ homeland from space. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli photographed Iran from the International Space Station (ISS) and shared the experience on X, formerly Twitter. While she has been in space for three months with SpaceX Crew-7, weather and her busy ISS schedule made it difficult to see…

Astronomers using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data have discovered a massive chain of at least 20 closely packed galaxies from the early universe, and it could reveal insight into how the most massive structures in the cosmos form. This megastructure — nicknamed the “Cosmic Vine” in a study published Nov. 8 to the preprint…

The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has upgraded its planetarium. The center has been closed since Monday, Nov. 6, for a $720,000 NASA-funded improvement to the planetarium, which features a 10K-resolution system that is utilizing 10 laser-illuminated projectors for a superior graphic performance. ADVERTISING Guests were treated to a preview Friday ahead of the center’s…

Deformable Mirror Technology development Deformable mirrors enable direct imaging of exoplanets by correcting imperfections or shape changes in a space telescope down to subatomic scales. Finding and studying Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars is critical to understand whether we are alone in the universe. To study such planets and assess if they can sustain life,…

It’s been 13.8 billion years since the ‘big bang’ and in that time hundreds of generations of stars have been born and died, and the elements formed by that process have, in turn, created everything in the physical universe. Iris Dillmann, nuclear astrophysicist and senior research scientist at Tri-University Meson Facility since 2013 and adjunct…