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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New research shows that certain elements arrive at Earth from distant parts of the galaxy in different ways. Learning more about how these elements move through the galaxy helps address a...
June 21, 2021
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NASA has committed $178 million to extend support for the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II), a five-institution research consortium, through...
May 21, 2021
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“Studying this planet, and hopefully others like it, can give us insight into how our own solar system formed,” says Tom Barclay.
June 24, 2020
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The research was made possible by "a clever reengineering in flight of how to operate the spacecraft and the instrument,” Mehdi Benna says. “And by doing both—the spacecraft doing something it was...
December 12, 2019
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Sander Goossens and his team used their new analysis "to see if there was anything we could say about the planet’s deep interior that people hadn’t been able to say before." There was: The team...
September 12, 2019
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“We’ve never seen anything exactly like the Cow,” Amy Lien says, “which is very exciting.” Her team at NASA's Swift Observatory hypothesizes that a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf star...
January 22, 2019
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Producing cosmic rays, which also happens following a supernova, requires that particles be accelerated nearly to the speed of light. “We found that the accelerated particles are really energetic,...
July 16, 2018
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To address such big ideas, “You need the solar system as your laboratory,” says Sander Goossens. NASA's MESSENGER satellite collected data during its years orbiting Mercury that enabled the...
January 29, 2018
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Nine distinguished faculty and alumni shared their stories at GRIT-X, a TED talk-style event during UMBC’s Homecoming that took listeners "from outer space to inner space, from a makerspace to the...
October 18, 2017
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