Universe Today
Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days
A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs
Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser
A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style!
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Which Missions and Observatories can Detect Technosignatures?
Venus Does Have Craters. Here's one
ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia
What's Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs
JWST was Recently Hit by a Surprisingly Large Micrometeoroid
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
NASA has Purchased 5 More Crew Dragon Missions, Keeping the ISS Going Until 2030
To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
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Cosmic Dawn Ended 1.1 Billion Years After the Big Bang
These Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation
Curiosity Sees Bizarre Spikes on Mars
A new picture taken by NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed something interesting - a pair of spikes protruding from the ground.
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Ingenuity has Lost its Sense of Direction, but It'll Keep on Flying
Juno's Entire 42nd Flight Past Jupiter in One Amazing Mosaic
This is the Last Selfie InSight Will Ever Take
Astronomers Just Practiced What Would Happen if a Potentially Dangerous Asteroid was Detected
Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils
First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th
Watch an Entire Flight by Ingenuity, From Take-off to Landing, Covering 704 Meters
Does a "Mirror World of Particles" Explain the Crisis in Cosmology?
A mirror universe model might explain why measurements of Hubble constant disagree.
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Hubble Sees a Surviving Companion Star After its Partner Went Supernova
What is the Best Radiation Shielding for the Surface of Mars?
A new study takes a look at potential methods for radiation shielding that could inform the creation of Martian habitats
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The Early Solar System was Total Mayhem
See All Naked Eye Planets This Month... in Order
June 2022 offers early risers the chance to trace out the naked eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn.
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Astronomers Find 116,000 New Variable Stars
Objects That Share the Same Orbit are Common in the Solar System. But we've Never Seen co-Orbital Exoplanets. Why?
A Pulsar has Been Found Turning so Slowly Astronomers Didn't Even Think it was Possible: Once Every 76 Seconds
Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!
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The Stars in Other Galaxies are Generally Heavier Than the Milky Way's Stars
Even if you can't see Auroras, You Can Sometimes Hear Them. Here's What They Sound Like
NASA Will Rent Future Spacesuits From Longtime Supplier and Newcomer
Dark Stars: The First Stars in the Universe Could Have Been Powered by Annihilating Dark Matter
Compare Sand Dunes Across the Solar System, From Venus to Pluto
A new study explains how bodies as different as Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Titan, and Triton can all have sand dunes on their surface!
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Could we Detect Dark Matter's Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?
Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze
Hubble Sees Two Spiral Galaxies Together
ESA's Juice Mission is Fully Integrated and Ready for Testing. Soon it'll fly to Space on a Mission to Jupiter's Moons
Civilizations Don't Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System
ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier
Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy
Planets in Binary Systems Could be Habitable, But They'd Form Differently
Gaia is an Even More Powerful Planet Hunter Than we Thought
The Dream of Faster-than-Light (FTL) Travel: Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and Limitless Space
Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and the Limited Space Institute continue to pursue the dream of the Alcubierre Warp Drive, which would allow humans to go interplanetary AND interstellar!
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A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth
A new technique that incorporates quantum techniques to interferometry could trigger another revolution in astronomy!
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Voyager 1 is Sending Home Strange Telemetry Data
The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies
"Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater." This is how we'll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans
Solar Orbiter's Pictures of the Sun are Every Bit as Dramatic as You Were Hoping
Update on the Potential May 31st tau Herculid Meteor Storm
If skies are clear, be sure to watch for a potential meteor outburst early next Tuesday morning.
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