Universe Today (Page 104)

Apollo 11 Moon Dust Sells at Auction for a Cool Half Million

By David Dickinson - April 14, 2022 11:56 AM UTC | Space Policy

A lunar moon dust sample with a strange history made its way to the auction block yesterday.

Brrr. Webb's MIRI has Reached 6.4 Kelvin, Just a few Degrees Above Absolute Zero

By Nancy Atkinson - April 14, 2022 11:44 AM UTC | Telescopes

Hubble Confirms Comet C/2014 UN271 is an Absolute Unit, Astronomically Speaking

By Nancy Atkinson - April 14, 2022 10:15 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Curiosity is Going to Find a new Route Around This Tricky Patch Called "Gator-Back Terrain"

By Matthew Williams - April 13, 2022 06:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Curiosity rover recently encountered "gator-back terrain," the sharp rocks that caused the first breaks in its wheels back in 2017.

Even Mercury has Geomagnetic Storms

By sdice - April 13, 2022 05:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomy Jargon 101: Tidal Heating

By Paul Sutter - April 13, 2022 05:09 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Five Rover Teams Chosen to Help Explore the Moon's South Pole

By Evan Gough - April 13, 2022 03:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Two Rockets at Cape Canaveral

By Matthew Williams - April 12, 2022 06:26 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The NASA Artemis I mission and the Axiom Mission 1 were photographed side by side on Launch Complex 39s sister pads. This is the first time that such a thing happened.

Martian Astronauts Will Create Fuel by Having a Shower

By Matthew Williams - April 12, 2022 05:11 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A team of Spanish researchers, with support from the ESA, are working on a system that will allow astronauts on Mars to turn wastewater into rocket fuel.

Because of Extreme Drought, Lake Powell is Barely a Lake Anymore

By Nancy Atkinson - April 12, 2022 03:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Just a Few Pixels Would let Astronomers Map Surface Features on an Exoplanet Like Oceans and Deserts

By Evan Gough - April 12, 2022 03:10 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Gamma ray Telescopes Might be Able to Detect the Gravitational Waves Caused by Merging Supermassive Black Holes

By sdice - April 12, 2022 02:25 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomy Jargon 101: Umbra

By Paul Sutter - April 12, 2022 11:01 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Get an Inside Look at Space Perspective's Stratospheric Lounge (With Bar)

By Alan Boyle - April 12, 2022 09:00 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Weird! Measurement of W Boson Doesn't Match Standard Model of Physics

By Alan Boyle - April 11, 2022 08:28 PM UTC | Physics

Perseverance's Software Lets it Move Swiftly Across the Surface of Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - April 11, 2022 06:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Perseverance Finally Spots its Own Parachute on the Surface of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - April 11, 2022 05:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A is Lopsided

By Evan Gough - April 11, 2022 02:15 PM UTC | Stars

Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs

By sdice - April 10, 2022 04:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Jupiter and Ganymede are Connected by Magnetic Fields

By Matthew Williams - April 09, 2022 01:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Using data obtained by the Juno mission, a team of researchers has revealed how interactions between Jupiter and its largest moon (Ganymede) lead both to experience auroras

Astronauts are Practicing Landing at the Moon's South Pole

By sjohnston - April 08, 2022 07:45 PM UTC | Space Exploration

It's Been Three Months in Deep Space, and Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument is Still Cooling Down

By Nancy Atkinson - April 08, 2022 04:56 PM UTC | Telescopes

Dying Star Puffs out six Smoke Rings

By Brian Koberlein - April 08, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Stars

A red giant star is dying in an unusual way by blowing smoke rings before its eminent demise.

The Four Private Axiom Astronauts are off to the International Space Station

By Matthew Williams - April 08, 2022 02:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Giant Space Telescopes Could Be Made Out of Liquid

By sdice - April 08, 2022 01:34 PM UTC | Telescopes

A New Record for the Most Distant Galaxy, Seen Just 300 Million Years After the Big Bang

By Matthew Williams - April 08, 2022 12:44 PM UTC | Cosmology

An international team of astronomers have discovered HD1, which could be the most distant galaxy ever observed!

Canada's CHIME is Getting More Observatories to Search for Fast Radio Bursts

By Matthew Williams - April 07, 2022 04:24 PM UTC | Observing

The CHIME array and its partner institutions are getting an upgrade to enhance their ability to trace Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) back to their sources

If Aliens Were Sending us Signals, This is What They Might Look Like

By Matthew Williams - April 07, 2022 01:23 PM UTC | Astrobiology

An international team of scientists have created a new tool for identifying possible radio transmissions from an extraterrestrial civilization

Digging Through Kepler Data Turns Up a Near Twin of Jupiter

By Evan Gough - April 06, 2022 06:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Marsquakes are Caused by Shifting Magma

By Evan Gough - April 06, 2022 03:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

BluShift Aerospace Tests MAREVL Engine, Eyes Move to Kennedy Space Center

By David Dickinson - April 06, 2022 09:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

With the first test of its MAREVL Engine complete, Maine's space launch startup bluShift Aerospace looks to expand operations.

Cultured Meat Could Keep Astronauts fed in Space

By Matthew Williams - April 05, 2022 10:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The ESA is investigating lab-grown meat as a possible application of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions away from Earth.

What a Feat! Ingenuity Photographed From Space

By Evan Gough - April 05, 2022 06:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hubble Has Been Watching This Planet Form for 13 Years

By Evan Gough - April 05, 2022 04:25 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Lasers Recreate the Conditions Inside Galaxy Clusters

By sdice - April 05, 2022 11:27 AM UTC | Extragalactic

According to Perseverance, Mars is Quiet... too Quiet

By sjohnston - April 04, 2022 06:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Primordial Helium, Left Over From the Big Bang, is Leaking Out of the Earth

By Evan Gough - April 04, 2022 05:33 PM UTC | Cosmology

The Milky Way has an Inner Ring, Just Outside the Core

By Matthew Williams - April 04, 2022 03:06 PM UTC | Milky Way

Combining data from the APOGEE survey and the Gaia Observatory with sophisticated models, a team of scientists has found a new ring structure in the Milky Way!