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Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time

11.18.19

Starting in the early 2030s, the project could become our first purposeful step out of the solar system--if it launches at all.

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Lydia Mazeeva Selected for Caltech’s FUTURE of Physics Program

Lydia Mazeeva Selected for Caltech’s FUTURE of Physics Program

Michael Wysession

8.13.26 | HuffPost

Why Are There So Many Earthquakes Happening? We Asked Geologists.

This illustration shows a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which is used by astronomers to study very distant and very faint galaxies. Note that the scale has been greatly exaggerated in this diagram. In reality, the distant galaxy is much further away and much smaller. Credit: NASA, ESA & L. Calcada

Building Roman’s definitive strong-lens catalog

In this illustration, WD 1856b, a giant planet, orbits its dim white dwarf star every day and a half. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

WashU team to lead the search for planets orbiting white dwarfs with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope