Purdue University Northwest student Deonte Mackie was awarded the prestigious TEAM-UP Together Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Mackie was the first PNW student and one of only 62 undergraduate students nationwide to receive the scholarship. “I was surprised when I found out I had received the scholarship,” said Mackie, a third-year Physics major in the College of…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that nearly all of the universe’s earliest galaxies were filled with dazzling gas clouds that blazed brighter than the emerging stars within them — and it could help solve a mystery that threatens to break cosmology. Forming as early as 500 million years after the Big Bang,…

ASU researchers contribute to studies examining the infrared light from the images November 9, 2023 Webb and Hubble have joined forces to study the galaxy cluster MACS0416, located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. Their combined data yields a colorful panorama of blues and reds — colors that give clues to the distances of the…

Ireland is all set to see its first-ever satellite reach orbit. The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1, or EIRSAT-1, was built by University College Dublin students as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy’s Fly Your Satellite! (FYS) program. The gamma-ray astronomy cubesat project began in 2017 and is now due to fly on…

Astrophysicist Luca Costantin went on vacation to the Spanish region of Cantabria last summer. On his first day off, August 1, after touring the beaches and green mountains of San Vicente de la Barquera, he turned on his laptop and got to work. “I have a bad habit of looking at my email for an…

Science Photo Library/Alamy RECENTLY, I was giving a tour of the University of New Hampshire’s department of physics and astronomy to a guest who isn’t a scientist. Among the many questions he asked was: “How does this stuff show up in the real world?” The kind of stuff I do, I explained, is mostly just…

Saturn’s rings will seemingly disappear from view in 2025, a phenomenon caused by the planet’s rotation on an axis. Saturn won’t actually lose its rings in 2025, but they will go edge-on, meaning they will be essentially invisible to earthlings, NASA confirmed to CBS News. The rings will only be slightly visible in the months…

NASA’s “worm” logo first debuted in the 1970s. Credit: NASA. NASA’s sleek and timeless “worm” logo is back. The NASA logo was designed in the mid-70s, retired in 1992, and then brought back — for a while — in 2020. Now, it’s back for good. NASA officially returned its 1970s symbol Nov. 6 live from Washington,…

NASA’s “worm” logo first debuted in the 1970s. Credit: NASA. NASA’s timeless “worm” logo is back. The NASA logo was introduced in the mid-70s, retired in 1992, and then brought back — only for a while — in 2020. Now, it’s back for good. NASA officially returned its 1970s symbol Nov. 6 live from Washington, D.C…