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PhAst: Accelerated Asteroid Characterisation Combining Sparse Data from Sky Surveys
Asteroid Discovery is Outpacing Analysis
There are around 1.3 million known asteroids, and hundreds of new near-Earth asteroids are found every month as detection surveys improve. But finding an asteroid is only the first step. To judge whether ...
Post · October 01, 2026
My Citizen Science Research for the NASA DART Mission and Learnings from the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference, UNOOSA, Vienna
Arushi Nath.
The 8th Planetary Defense Conference was held at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria, from 3 - 7 April 2023.
The Conference, organised by the International Academy of Astronautics, is held...
Post · October 01, 2026
Millimagnitude Photometry in Practice: A Year of Exoplanet Transit Timing for ESA Ariel
In 2025 I set up a remote telescope observatory, IAU Minor Planet Code R60, to reach millimagnitude photometry; the engineering story is in Building My Remote Observatory. This post reports the exoplanet science from its first year: 29 transit tim...
Post · October 01, 2026
Lightcurve and Rotation Period of Asteroid 2025 FA22
My paper on asteroid 2025 FA22 has been published in the Minor Planet Bulletin, Volume 53, Number 2 (2026). This is my second publication in the Bulletin, and it encourages me to continue doing high-quality observational and computational astrono...
Post · October 01, 2026
Strengthening Planetary Defense: Developing Algorithms to Determine Asteroid’s Physical Properties and Success of Deflection Missions
September Update: The 34th European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) was held in Brussels, Belgium from 11-17 September 2023. It brought together 136 promising young scientists aged 14 to 20, from 36 countries across the EU and beyond fo...
Post · October 01, 2026
Public outreach - SHARPER European Researcher's Night 2025
In this year's edition of the SHARPER European Researcher's Night we highlighted the growing threat of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, malaria, and West Nile virus. Young children got to learn about the mosquito life...
Post · September 28, 2026
TLC Lab Contributes to National Policy Brief on Protecting Children and Adolescents From Digital Harms
Dr. Adam Dubé, Director of the Technology, Learning, and Cognition (TLC) Lab, contributed to a new national policy brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage as part of its study of Bill C-34, the Safe Social M...
Post · September 24, 2026
The uncomfortable realities of academic life
The academic path, whether at the doctoral or postdoctoral stage, is often portrayed as a linear progression toward intellectual fulfilment and professional recognition. Yet beneath this polished surface lie several uncomfortable realities that ar...
Post · September 24, 2026
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