In this podcast Melanie Boylan speaks to Ronan Newman who is launching the first annual Irish Astronomy Week this March.
Learn how this came about and how he...
This one is dedicated to my son Fredérik, gaming his way to space.
Space exploration has increased rapidly in the last decade, and the space race is on. With...
Asteroid Belting
Asteroid Bennu, the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid expedition, kept surprising the mission team while the spacecraft studied it from a distance. The project, led by the University of Arizona, aimed to produce samples from the ...
The current situation on Mars
There are currently eight spacecraft, including three operated by NASA, orbiting Mars. These spacecraft gather images of the plan...
A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has created a detailed, three-dimensional image of a dying hypergiant star. The team, led by UArizona researcher...
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Researchers at the University of Arizona played a leading role in the effort, providing two of the eight telescopes used to make the o...
A team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Arizona, has discovered evidence of a giant planet in the process of forming. This provides ...
Astronomers using NASA telescope, now-retired Spitzer Space, have found evidence of collisions that by smashing together, the bodies might accumulate more mater...
NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope is almost finishing the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the University of Arizona-designed and led Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, instrument.
The Webb te...
