Brian Koberlein
What Would the Milky Way Look Like From Afar?
Even though we're embedded inside the Milky Way, we don't know precisely what our galaxy looks like. Astronomers have had…
Touch Galaxies and Listen to Black Holes. Now You Can Explore the Universe With Multiple Senses
Astronomy is a visual science, gathering data with electromagnetic radiation with different detectors, including our eyes. Now experts have converted…
Watching the Watchers With Nancy Grace Roman
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets using the transit technique, watching how distant stars dim as a planet passes in…
Another Key Amino Acid Found in Space: Tryptophan
Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have…
Extending Earth's Internet to Mars With Orbital Data Servers
More spacecraft is due to fly to Mars and will send their data home. Human explorers will want to access…
There Could Be Captured Planets in the Oort Cloud
The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the…
Nancy Grace Roman Could Detect Supermassive Dark Stars
Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even…
A Brown Dwarf is Getting Hit With So Much Radiation it's Hotter Than the Sun
Astronomers have found a brown dwarf companion to a white dwarf star with a day-side temperature of around 8,000 kelvin…
Parker Solar Probe Makes a Surprising Discovery About the Source of the Geminid Meteor Shower
NASA's Parker Solar Probe happened to follow a trajectory that brought it close to a cloud of gas and dust…
An Unfortunate Planet is Undergoing “Extreme Evaporation,” Melting Under the Extreme Heat From its Star
Astronomers have known something strange is happening at the star FU Ori for decades. The star brightened dramatically about 85…