Andy Tomaswick
A Mission to Uranus Could Also be a Gravitational Wave Detector
Despite being extraordinarily difficult to detect for the first time, gravitational waves can be found using plenty of different techniques.…
It’s Time for Hardworking Hubble to Slow Down a Little
Thirty-four years is a long time for a telescope. Yet, that is how long the veteran workhorse of NASA's space…
NASA has a New Database to Predict Meteoroid Hazards for Spaceflight
There are plenty of problems that spacecraft designers have to consider. Getting smacked in the sensitive parts by a rock…
Suppressing Starlight: How to Find Other Earths
One underappreciated aspect of the current flood of exoplanet discoveries is the technical marvels that enable it. Scientists and engineers…
A New Telescope Can Observe Even in Broad Daylight
Astronomy is a profession that, so far, has only been done at night, at least on Earth. Light from the…
A Mini-Neptune in the Habitable Zone in a Binary Star System
Sometimes, it seems like habitable worlds can pop up almost anywhere in the universe. A recent paper from a team…
A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes
Sometimes, astronomers get lucky and catch an event they can watch to see how the properties of some of the…
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that…
Marvel at the Variety of Planets Found by TESS Already
The hunt for new exoplanets continues. On May 23rd, an international collaboration of scientists published the NASA TESS-Keck Catalog, an…
A New Venus-Sized World Found in the Habitable Zone of its Star
The parade of interesting new exoplanets continues. Today, NASA issued a press release announcing the discovery of a new exoplanet…