telescopes

Computer model comparison reveals rotational factors contributing to habitability

Astrobiologist Aomawa Shields uses computer modeling to gauge extraterrestrial life possibilities

Astronomers analyze masses, orbital properties and atmospheric features of six exoplanets

UC Irvine-led mission’s cosmic maps include galaxies, quasars and stars in the Milky Way

Advanced instruments aid in development of coherent picture of extragalactic nucleus

Instrument designed to find distant worlds is used to determine the absence of one

UCI astronomers help gather and study data from more than 30 million galaxies

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

Using the Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument, a team of scientists – including UCI astronomer Paul Robertson – has confirmed that an object previously detected by the Kepler space telescope is an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system. The team’s findings were published recently in The Astronomical Journal. Called G 9-40b, […]

An international team of astronomers, including a researcher from UCI’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, has found an ultramassive galaxy as it existed more than 12 billion years ago. Galaxy XMM-2599 was extremely productive early on – hatching more than 300 billion suns by the time the universe had its 1 billionth birthday (it’s now […]