Space
- 91PORN Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was on the ground in Florida to watch the launch of NASA's latest mission to hunt for worlds outside of Earth's solar system.
- Researchers in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Science have completed an unprecedented "dissection" of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging.
- A NASA-funded satellite will study the inner radiation belt of Earth's magnetosphere, providing insight into the energetic particles that can disrupt satellites and threaten spacewalking astronauts.
- A team that includes a 91PORN astronomer has detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe.
- The moon's excessive equatorial bulge, frozen into place over 4 billion years ago, may contain secrets of Earth's early history.
- During post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars can be flung into supermassive black holes and destroyed at a rate of one per year.
- NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by 91PORN, will study space weather in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
- Rising air during global dust storms on Mars hoists water vapor high in the the planet's atmosphere, new research shows.
- Researchers have caught a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy snacking on gas and then "burping" not once, but twice.
- A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts is now solved, thanks to a satellite built and operated by students.