RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
Even though the odds of crashing into Earth are quite low, if it does bang into the planet, a catastrophe would be unleashed.
Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...
A space rock the size of a shopping mall, named 2024 YR4, is zooming through the solar system at more than 10 kilometers per ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that may collide with Earth in 2032 since early January, ...
While Semeter is studying the ionosphere, the SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center, a team of astrophysicists from different universities ...
The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...