Universe Today
This is a Dust Avalanche on Mars
Traveling the Solar System with Pulsar Navigation
What Does Micrometeoroid Damage do to Gossamer Structures Like Webb's Sunshield?
A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
InSight Senses its two Biggest Marsquakes so far, Coming From the Opposite Side of the Planet
NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected the two most powerful "marsquakes" to date, which are already revealing things about Mars' geology.
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Why Believing in the Multiverse Isn't Madness
Scientists Create Molecules that can Follow Darwinian Evolution
A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest "Black Widow" Binary Ever Seen
Neptune's Temperature is Behaving Strangely
The Younger the Planet, the More Likely it is to be Habitable
A Magnetic Bubble Could Protect Astronauts From Dangerous Space Radiation
NASA is Looking for Ideas on How to Simulate Missions to Mars!
NASA and HeroX have launched the NASA MarsXR Challenge, which will award up to $70,000 in prizes for innovative ideas on how to simulate future Mars missions.
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NASA Releases a Simulation of 22 Known Black Hole Binary Systems
NASA Announces the Winners of its Second Payload Challenge!
Earlier today, NASA announced the winners of their "Honey, I Shrunk the Payload, the Sequel" Challenge!
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Hydrogen Gas Can Seep Through Rock Providing Food to Bacteria. Another Place to Look for Life On Other Worlds.
Ingenuity is now Scouting Ahead of Perseverance, Helping it Navigate Difficult Terrain
A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive black hole!
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Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes
This is it! On May 12th we'll see the Event Horizon Telescope's Image of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at the ESO's headquarters on May 12th!
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Now, We can Finally Compare Webb to Other Infrared Observatories
Watch What Happens to Astronauts When the International Space Station Gets an Orbital Reboost
Which Parts of Mars are the Safest From Cosmic Radiation?
In a new study, an international team examines Mars' radiation environment and determined that the best place to build an underground habitat is where the atmosphere is thickest.
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Space Lettuce Could Reduce Astronaut Bone Loss
China is Building an Asteroid Deflection Mission of its own, due for Launch in 2025
Crew-4 is off to the Station
Antarctica Lost an Ice Shelf, but Gained an Island
Solar Power in a Future Martian Lifestyle
Titan is an Alien World, but Surprisingly Familiar
A New Kind of Stellar Explosion Has Been Discovered: Micronovae
Prepare Yourself: New Engineering Images from JWST Will Blow Your Mind
Amazing! Ingenuity Helicopter Flies to the Perseverance Backshell and Parachute to See Them Close Up
Ganymede Casts a Long Shadow Across the Surface of Jupiter
A Partial Solar Eclipse Kicks Off the First Eclipse Season of 2022
A remote solar eclipse this coming weekend sets us up for the first total lunar eclipse of 2022.
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In Some Places, Black Holes are Tearing Apart Thousands of Stars at a Time
A new study has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow by consuming high-density star clusters
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Webb Has Almost Reached its Final, Coldest Temperature
All Five of Life's Informational Components can Form in Space
A new analysis of meteorite samples has found the building blocks of life that have eluded scientists so far.
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Hubble has Characterized 25 Hot Jupiters. Here's What we Know so far
Shallow Pockets of Water Under the ice on Europa Could Bring Life Close to its Surface
New research from Standford University has found an explanation for the most prominent features on Europa, based on similar featured observed in Greenland.
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Eight Missions are Getting Extensions, Most Exciting: OSIRIS-REx is Going to Asteroid Apophis
Explorers Could Build Bricks on Mars with Bacteria and Pee
Large Hadron Collider Restarts, Shooting Protons at Record Energy Levels
There Should be More Evidence of Alien Technology Than Alien Biology Across the Milky Way
Axiom's First Astronauts Return From International Space Station
NASA is Ready to try and fix Lucy's Unlatched Solar Panel
Hubble Checks the Weather on Hot Jupiters. Forecast: 100% Chance of Hellish Conditions
Planetary Decadal Survey Says it's Time for a Mission to Uranus (and Enceladus too!)
The recently released Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 has identified some exciting missions and goals for the coming decade!
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Slimmed Down Red Giants Had Their Mass Stolen By a Companion Star
Here's Something Rare: a Martian Crater That isn't a Circle. What Happened?
