What if we could peer back in time to understand how our galaxy was built—one exploding star at a time? When massive stars reach the end of their lives, they don’t go quietly. They explode in...
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Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus’ surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research. On Earth, the shifting and recycling of tectonic plates continually...
May 14, 2025
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Eileen Meyer (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn’t ever expect to see happen in real time. A new paper published...
January 13, 2025
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UMBC is approaching 30 years of collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a partnership that largely culminates under the university’s three major cooperative...
December 13, 2024
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An animated short co-directed by UMBC’s Robin Corbet, senior research scientist in the Center for Space Sciences and Technology, and Laurence Arcadias, an animation professor at the Maryland...
September 16, 2024
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UMBC is collaborating with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to host an interactive, three-day event series that takes a closer look into the center’s current research activity, with...
September 13, 2024
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Planetary scientist Mehdi Benna of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology, along with a team of collaborators, recently released a video recounting the launch of NASA’s Dissipation...
June 13, 2024
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The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), along with several institutional partners, has been selected to develop one of the first three lunar instruments chosen for implementation and...
April 10, 2024
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A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET)instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence for nearby, young sources of cosmic ray electrons,...
November 14, 2023
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UMBC researchers are partnering on STAR-X, a nine-month mission concept study investigating black holes, galaxy clusters, and often-elusive transient cosmic events like supernova explosions....
February 14, 2023
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