Join us as Caroline Morley, UT Austin, presents, "Prospects for Observing Exoplanets in the Coming Years with Ground-based Telescopes and JWST." Abstract: As exoplanet astronomers, we currently stand ...

Water is necessary for life. It's also tremendously important for food and energy security and ecosystem health. Despite this, many people live in areas that experience water scarcity at least one ...

Baltimore, MD— Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, according to a Johns Hopkins ...

Thomas Kruijer will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Jonathan Tucker, a DCO postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Mantle heterogeneity, giant impacts, and the origin of Earth's volatiles" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 2, 2017, in the ...

Thousands of kilometres beneath our feet, Earth's iron-rich core was first seismically observed more than a century ago, but still hides many secrets. The outer core is slowly being consumed by the ...

Erik Hauri, a staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk titled "Global Warming: Geochemical and Geophysical Implications of a Higher Mantle Temperature" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2017, in the ...

Ken Caldeira, from Global Ecology, will present his lecture on Friday September, 27, 2019, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to ...

Spectropolarimetry (specpol) is a powerful, albeit underutilized, tool that offers insights into the geometry and shape of unresolved astrophysical sources. This technique holds particular ...

Colloquium: Technological advances driving discovery in astrophysics -- nova eruptions, and future prospects with LSST ...

Over the past decade, hundreds of small exoplanets with sizes between 1 and 4 Re, so-called super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, have been discovered. Such small planets are the most common in the Galaxy ...