NASA’s “Planetary Defenders” Heads to the Sundance Film Festival
January 21, 2025 Trailer for NASA’s upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” which will take audiences inside the high-stakes world of asteroid…
Category: Space
Dark energy ‘doesn’t exist’ so can’t be pushing ‘lumpy’ Universe apart – study
December 23, 2024 By Royal Astronomical Society London, UK − (Highpoint Digest) − One of the biggest mysteries in science…
‘Inside-out’ galaxy growth observed in the early universe through the JWST
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the…
A new era of solar observation
International team produces global maps of coronal magnetic field October 05, 2024 by Audrey Merket An illustration of the global…
Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet
September 26, 2024 By Niranjana Rajalakshmi, University Communications Artist’s illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107b based on transit observations from…
Magnifying Deep Space Through the ‘Carousel Lens’
A newly discovered cluster-scale strong gravitational lens, with a rare alignment of seven background lensed galaxies, provides a unique opportunity…
Gravitational waves unveil previously unseen properties of neutron stars
September 09, 2024 by Lois Yoksoulian | Physical Sciences and Media Editor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A better understanding of…
Plasma Bubbles and the “Engine” of Cosmic Fast Radio Bursts: UNLA Study
A new study by international team of scientists in the journal Nature has discovered the origin of the persistent emission of…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope takes a closer look at eternal sunrises, sunsets on distant world
July 16, 2024 Greenbelt, MD (Highpoint Digest) − Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models…
The stench of a gas giant? Nearby exoplanet reeks of rotten eggs. And that’s a good thing
Astronomers sniffed out the stinky atmosphere with Webb Telescope July 09, 2024 Baltimore, MD (Highpoint Digest) − An exoplanet infamous…