New data released today by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile indicate our universe is around 13.8 billion years old.
Jul 15, 2020
UBC astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler mission.
Feb 28, 2020
An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.
Jul 11, 2016
If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape.
Sep 18, 2015
Researchers at UBC will be able to probe the mysteries of quantum materials with a new state-of-the-art ultrafast laser, thanks to a $1.4 million US grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
May 26, 2015
Hidden within images of some of the oldest light in the universe, researchers have identified what they believe are scenes of galaxies clumping together into massive structures known as galaxy clusters.
Mar 31, 2015
In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star, just before it vanished.
Jan 8, 2015
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