Space
Space
蜜桃影像 researchers are asking the big questions about the universe, building tools to answer them, and sharing their discoveries with the world.
A 蜜桃影像 expert shares advice and insights
A 蜜桃影像 Online and NASA explainer
Riding the Radcliffe Wave
In 2020, : A wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun鈥檚 backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral arm of the Milky Way.
Astronomers observe a star consuming a planet
Researchers reported the first-ever sighting of a star engulfing鈥攁nd obliterating鈥攁 planet, providing a preview of what could happen to Earth.
Finding an explanation for the Milky Way鈥檚 warp
蜜桃影像 astronomers have performed the first calculations that fully explain why the Milky Way is warped and has edges that are flared like a skirt.
Stellar scholars
Kate Sweeney
While at 蜜桃影像 Business School, Kate wondered how space technology could be used to improve lives back on Earth.
Megan Cordone
On the day she graduated from the Kennedy School, Megan was promoted to first lieutenant in the U.S. Space Force.
London Vallery
What began as a course on the aerospace rights of Native American reservations sparked a passion project that London hopes will become the basis of her future career.
Home among the stars
As more earthlings make their way to space, for business, pleasure, and research, we’ll need to find solutions for many necessities.
How to do business in space
The business of space is no different than new industries everywhere else: it鈥檚 tough to launch. 蜜桃影像 Business School Professor Matthew Weinzierl lays out the strategic roadmap to the stars.
Exploring space law
蜜桃影像 Law lecturer Memme Onwudiwe explains the biggest extraterrestrial issues鈥攁nd why lawyers should pay attention.
Growing food without gravity
Bioengineering student Rohil Dhaliwal researched plant growth in microgravity.
Eating while floating
蜜桃影像 alum Larissa Zhou sees a future where people eat delicious food in space.
Maintaining our spaceships
The 蜜桃影像 School of Engineering developed robots for maintaining space habitats.
Doctors in space
蜜桃影像 alum Chidi Akusobi dove deep at NASA鈥檚 Aerospace Medicine Clerkship program.
We want to believe
From exploring the possibility of life in space to theorizing about ways to communicate with it, researchers at 蜜桃影像 are planning for the day they find out we aren’t alone in the universe.
[A] quarter of all the stars in the galaxy have planets in the habitable zone 鈥� it鈥檚 not impossible that there may be life elsewhere.鈥�Avi Loeb
Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science
The quest to understand black holes
In 2019, researchers unveiled the . Just a few years later, an image of a was finally captured. In 2022, a second image was released, .
Since then, researchers have made even more observations about these mysterious regions of space. Astronomers have even observed a years after consuming a star.
Our corner of the universe
蜜桃影像 University has a long history of space research that, like the universe itself, continues to expand as we inspire more people to wonder at the cosmos.
An accessible universe
蜜桃影像’s Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope has been made even more accessible through the addition of and , so everyone can enjoy space.
Astronomical foremothers
A constellation of researchers
Today, 蜜桃影像 programs, labs, and centers are building on the work of these pioneers as they continue to unlock the mysteries of the universe.
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