Universe Today
NASA is Getting Serious About the Search for Life in the Universe
What's Snuffing Out Galaxies Before Their Time?
Astronomers Might Have Found a Planet in Another Galaxy
Could our Universe be Someone's Chemistry Project?
According to a new op-ed by Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb, our Universe may have been created by an advanced civilization, something we might be able to do someday too.
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?
In their book, two Australian astrophysicists question the idea that our Universe "fine-tuned" for life, with some interesting conclusions.
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Moons are Planets too
If we define planets as worlds that are geologically complex, then some moons are planets too.
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Ingenuity Back in Action on Mars on its 14th Flight
A Mission to Explore the Methane Lakes on Titan
Scientists Simulate the Climate of Arrakis. It Turns Out Dune is a Pretty Realistic Exoplanet
Bacteria Could Make Rocket Fuel on Mars
Blue Origin Announces the "Orbital Reef," the Space Station they Plan to Build in Orbit
Blue Origin and Sierra Space have joined with other commercial space partners to create the first commercial space station: The Orbital Reef!
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Artemis 1 is Launching in February
New Idea: Use the Starship HLS to Create a Lunar Base!
An international team presented a new idea for a lunar base at 2021 IAC this week: use the Starship HLS to create the habitat!
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Quick Action Let Hubble Watch the Earliest Stages of an Unfolding Supernova Detonation
The Sun Blasted Out a Huge Flare and CME; We Could See Auroras on Halloween
Lightweight, Flexible Lens Could be the Future of Space Telescopes
"Mechazilla" is Getting its Arms. Now it can Catch Starships!
The "Mechazilla" Launch Tower at SpaceX's Boca Chica Launch Facility in south Texas just got a pair of "chopstick" arms!
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Proposed Centaur Mission Could Catch Comets in the Act of Formation
A recent plan would send a Centaur mission to Jupiter's orbit and follow a comet through formation.
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A Mars Colony Could be a Hydrogen Factory, Providing Propellant for the Inner Solar System
Early Earth was Pummeled 10x More Than Previously Estimated
Researchers Use Ancient Literature to Track 3,000 Years of Auroras
The Radio Signal From Proxima Centauri Came From Earth After All
This is How You Get Moons. An Earth-Sized World Just got Pummeled by Something Huge.
Apparently, This Nebula Looks Like Godzilla. Do you see it?
Artemis 1 Comes Together as the Orion Capsule is Stacked on Top of the Space Launch System
The Artemis I rocket has been fully stacked is ready for the final tests before launch!
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A new Climate Model Suggests That Venus Never had Oceans
A new study has cast doubt on whether or not Venus ever had oceans, challenging the notion that it was once a potentially-habitable world.
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Primordial Gravitational Waves Continue to Elude Astronomers
New observations put further constraints on primordial gravitational waves, but still haven't found them yet.
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The Early Solar System Had a Gap Where the Asteroid Belt is Today
A map of River Beds on Titan for Dragonfly to Explore
I Could Look at James Webb Unboxing Pictures all Day
Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for launch on Dec. 18th!
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Uh oh, one of Lucy's Solar Arrays Hasn't Latched Properly
Meteorites Found With Little Pieces of Other Stars
There are 6x10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe
A new study based on Information Theory has produced the first estimate on just how much data is encoded in the cosmos (and it's a lot!)
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The Large Magellanic Cloud Stole one of its Globular Clusters
Lucy is off to Visit Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
Something Really Wants our Attention. One Object Released 1,652 Fast Radio Bursts in 47 Days
Researchers working with the 500-Meter FAST telescope in China reported 1,652 fast radio bursts in 47 days coming from a single source.
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What Are Your Options When you've Only Got Hours or Days to Prevent an Asteroid Impact?
With no Solid Surface, the Atmosphere of Jupiter Behaves Quite Differently Than Earth
Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Super-Jupiter
Gravitational Waves Reveal Surprising Secrets About Neutron Stars
What's Causing the Mysterious Radio Waves Coming From the Center of the Milky Way?
A Magnetic Tunnel Surrounds the Earth
Here's the View From Sweden During the Recent Solar Storm
Volcanism on the Moon Ended About 2 Billion Years ago
An international team examined lunar rocks brought back by the Chang'e-5 mission, and determined that volcanism ended on the Moon 2 billion years ago
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Why do Uranus and Neptune Have Magnetic Fields? Hot ice
This'll be us... in 5 Billion Years
A Spacecraft Could use Gravity to Prevent a Dangerous Asteroid Impact
Did Titan Give Saturn its Tilt?
William Shatner Completes his Trip to Space With Blue Origin
William Shatner and the crew of the Blue Origin NS-18 mission made it back to Earth safe and sound!
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Perseverance has Collected its First Sample of Mars and Prepared it for Return to Earth... Eventually
