Universe Today (Page 115)

Rocky Planets Might Need to be the Right age to Support Life

By Matthew Williams - October 15, 2021 04:45 PM UTC | Astrobiology

In a new study, a team of Earth scientists shows how scientists could look for signs of a carbon-silicate cycle on exoplanets.

Not Just Sitting Ducks. Maybe Satellites Could Dodge Almost all Space Junk

By Andy Tomaswick - October 15, 2021 04:15 PM UTC | Space Policy

NASA's Mission to Visit 8 Asteroids, Lucy, Launches on October 16th

By Nancy Atkinson - October 15, 2021 10:49 AM UTC | Missions

How to Prevent our Spacecraft From Contaminating Mars

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2021 04:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences highlights the importance of planetary protection for future missions destined for Mars.

Why Visit Just one Moon When you Could Explore Them all?

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2021 03:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Biggest Comet Ever Seen Will get as Close as Saturn in 2031

By Nancy Atkinson - October 14, 2021 03:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

China's FAST Telescope Could Detect Self-Replicating Alien Probes

By Andy Tomaswick - October 14, 2021 01:18 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Advanced Civilizations Could use Their Stars to Communicate (and as Telescopes)

By mcimone - October 14, 2021 10:46 AM UTC | Astrobiology

Images of 42 of the Biggest Asteroids in the Solar System

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2021 05:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage

By Evan Gough - October 13, 2021 03:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

LOFAR Sees Strange Radio Signals Hinting at Hidden Exoplanets

By David Dickinson - October 13, 2021 01:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets

LOFAR sees 'exoplanet aurorae' near distant red dwarf suns.

Webb has Arrived Safely at the Launch Site

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2021 10:28 AM UTC | Telescopes

Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time

By Paul Sutter - October 13, 2021 08:57 AM UTC | Black Holes

BepiColombo's First Pictures of Mercury

By Andy Tomaswick - October 12, 2021 10:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Greenland's Ice Sheet is Similar in Many Ways to the Solar System's Icy Worlds and Can Teach Us How to Search for Life

By Evan Gough - October 12, 2021 04:43 PM UTC | Astrobiology

The Astronauts who Would Have Tested Starliner Have Been Reassigned to an Upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2021 04:21 PM UTC | Missions

NASA has taken the two astronauts selected to test the Starliner and reassigned them to fly the fifth SpaceX Dragon mission to the ISS.

'Glowing' Sand Dune Erosion on the Side of a Martian Crater

By Nancy Atkinson - October 12, 2021 10:49 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Rare Planet Found Orbiting Three Stars

By Paul Sutter - October 12, 2021 08:54 AM UTC | Exoplanets

James Webb's 30 Days of Terror

By Nancy Atkinson - October 11, 2021 10:45 AM UTC | Missions

Gravitational-Wave Observatories Should be Able to Detect Primordial Black Hole Mergers, if They're out There

By Paul Sutter - October 11, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Black Holes

Wind Speeds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot are Picking up

By Paul Sutter - October 10, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect the First Stars When They Exploded as Supernovae

By Paul Sutter - October 09, 2021 02:40 PM UTC | Physics

IBM Space Tech Wants to "Democratize Space" with ENDURANCE.

By Matthew Williams - October 08, 2021 11:29 PM UTC | Space Policy

IBM Space Tech is launching Endurance, CubeSat mission that children from all over the world will be able to use to gain access to space!

Early Massive Galaxies ran out of gas, Shutting Down Their Star Formation

By Paul Sutter - October 08, 2021 02:39 PM UTC | Extragalactic

This Object is Both an Asteroid and a Comet

By Andy Tomaswick - October 08, 2021 01:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Perseverance Sees Evidence of Flash Floods in Jezero Crater

By sjohnston - October 07, 2021 08:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Nancy Grace Roman Just Passed a Critical Design Review

By Matthew Williams - October 07, 2021 07:02 PM UTC | Telescopes

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just completed it's Mission Critical Design Review, a major milestone on the road to the launch of this next-generation observatory!

An Exoplanet Reaches 2400 C in One Hemisphere. Does it Really Rain Iron?

By Evan Gough - October 07, 2021 06:37 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Are the Burned-Out Remnants of the First Stars all Around us?

By Paul Sutter - October 07, 2021 04:18 PM UTC | Cosmology

Russian Actor and Filmmaker are On the Space Station to Shoot Scenes for a Film

By Nancy Atkinson - October 07, 2021 11:06 AM UTC | Space Exploration

It's Official, William Shatner Will be Flying to Space With Blue Origin

By Paul Sutter - October 07, 2021 08:38 AM UTC | Space Exploration

One Star Could Answer Many Unsolved Questions About Black Holes

By Evan Gough - October 06, 2021 06:08 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers Have a new way to Measure the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

By Paul Sutter - October 06, 2021 04:20 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers Might use Pulsars to First Detect Merging Supermassive Black Holes

By Paul Sutter - October 06, 2021 01:58 PM UTC | Black Holes

There are Many Metal-Rich Asteroids Nearby to Investigate

By Andy Tomaswick - October 06, 2021 11:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science

On its Next run, LIGO Will be Able to Probe 8 Times as Much Space

By Andy Tomaswick - October 06, 2021 10:21 AM UTC | Physics

Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVII: What is the "SETI-Paradox" Hypothesis?

By Matthew Williams - October 05, 2021 07:46 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Another reason we haven't heard from aliens is that the possibility that every everyone is listening, but nobody's messaging!

Arid Meteor Outburst in the Works This Week?

By David Dickinson - October 05, 2021 10:42 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A new Arid meteor shower may be making itself known in early October 2021.

There's Enough Sunlight Getting Through Venus' Clouds to Support High-Altitude Life

By Andy Tomaswick - October 05, 2021 10:31 AM UTC | Astrobiology

NASA Spacecraft Takes a Picture of Jupiter ... From the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - October 05, 2021 08:56 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Technique to Find Oceans on Other Worlds

By Matthew Williams - October 04, 2021 04:34 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new study shows how next-generation observatories could directly observe oceans on exoplanets, which could narrow the search for extraterrestrial life.