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Ever since it debuted in 2009, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has redefined our understanding of other star systems. But Kepler is in rough shape, and it won’t last forever. Now TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is ticking along on schedule...

Last month, I interviewed Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who studies the evolution of galaxies. She's part of the team working on what will essentially be the most powerful telescope ever built: the James Webb...

All About Space: This artist’s impression shows a supermassive black hole consuming a star. Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Swift For the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, it’s been a long time between dinners...

Education 2011 Doctor rerum naturalium Magna cum laude Astronomy, Physics Department Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany 1998 Master of Science Full grade Physics Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy Work Experience 12.2015 01.2017 PostDoc...

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register Astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered five of the most distant gamma-ray blazars yet known, and two of them are hiding huge monsters at their centers. The light coming from the most distant...