A new study led by scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, NASA, the Florida Institute of Technology, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and the University of Oxford has uncovered a connection between solar flares — sudden outbursts of radiation from stars — and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets.

The University of Pittsburgh engineering professors and scholars at the NSF Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC) are collaborating with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Naval Nuclear Laboratory to improve satellite security. They have helped develop a novel algorithm to more efficiently and effectively assess the trustworthiness of satellites in low Earth orbit.

An international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal – created by hydrogen atoms filling the gaps between star-forming regions – originating just a hundred million years after the Big Bang.