Space Exploration

York expert Kinnon MacKinnon is featured in the New York Times, and more

York experts discuss detransition research, daylight saving time, public safety tips for Swifties, space exploration, and more.

Ancient stellar collisional ring galaxy forms stars 50 times faster than Milky Way

Researchers have found a rare and massive collisional ring galaxy from some 10.8 billion years ago that is forming stars 50 times faster than the Milky Way, says York University Postdoctoral Fellow Leo Alcorn of the Faculty of Science. These kinds of ring galaxies are formed when one galaxy collides with another galaxy that passes through its centre.

York University’s Observatory team celebrates 50th anniversary of Moon landing

TORONTO, July 9, 2019 – York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory team is marking that historic day 50 years ago when the first human walked on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. To celebrate the successful spaceflight that landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon to take their first […]