The 21st century has already seen multiple major new disease outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to Ebola and Zika, culminating in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The global human suffering, economic damage, and social disruption the global population is...

COVID-19 continues to ravage Native American communities in the Southwest, taking lives at rates 19 percent higher than other racial or ethnic groups. In an effort to help those communities, the UNM Native American Budget and Policy Institute (NABPI), in...

interpretation of AU Mic b. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)  and retired Spitzer Space Telescope were instrumental in the discovery of a planet about as large as Neptune. 

an M-type red dwarf star at least 150 times younger than our Sun. The dark areas represent huge sunspot-like regions that helped complicate the search for planets.

discovered a planet about as large as Neptune that circles the young star AU Mic.

AU Mic, The Angry Star presents Flares of Fury.

For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now scientists using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and...

Scientists used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope to discover a planet about as large as Neptune that circles the young star in just over a week.

The University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories have enjoyed a close partnership for many years, collaborating on numerous research projects, sharing expertise and knowledge through joint academic appointments, and hiring many UNM graduates...