Brian Koberlein
Future Space Telescopes Could be Made From Thin Membranes, Unrolled in Space to Enormous Size
As we saw with JWST, it's difficult and expensive to launch large telescope apertures, relying on origami techniques to unfold…
Webb Confirms a Longstanding Galaxy Model
The spectra of distant galaxies shows that dying sun-like stars, not supernovae, enrich galaxies the most.
Will Advanced Civilizations Build Habitable Planets or Dyson Spheres
Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced civilizations might eventually harvest all the energy coming from their stars by surrounding them with…
Learning More About Supernovae Through Stardust
Dust grains older than the Sun can tell us about how supernovae enriched the cosmos with heavy elements, but the…
Astronomers Predict the Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Comets From Meteor Showers
Long-period comets can have orbits that can take hundreds of years before they return to the inner Solar System and…
Astronomers Have Found the Fastest Spinning Neutron Star
In 2005 astronomers found a pulsar rotating at 716 times a second. Now a team studying an X-ray binary has…
Could Life at TRAPPIST-1 Survive the Star's Superflares?
The TRAPPIST-1 system is exciting because of several Earth-sized worlds within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, but…
Here are Some Potentially Habitable World Targets for the Upcoming LIFE Mission
There are a few telescopes under development that could reveal evidence of life on exoplanets. One is the Large Interferometer…
The First Triple Star System Found Containing a Black Hole
Triple star systems are very common in the universe, but now astronomers have found a system where one of the…
There's a Particle Accelerator at the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected ultra-high-energy gamma rays coming from the center of the Milky Way, with nearly 100 events of more…