Universe Today
We Need to Fix Space Junk Before It's Too Late
Fantastic Visualization Shows What Would Happen if you Dropped a Ball Across the Solar System
New Images of Mars From China's Rover
China has released a new series of images that shows the progress their Zhurong rover has made on the Martian surface.
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WIMPS vs. Axions: What is dark matter?
Is the Universe a Fractal?
Ingenuity is now Mapping the Terrain Around Perseverance
Don't Be Surprised if EmDrive Experiments Never Work
Shanghai is About to Open the World's Largest Astronomy Museum
The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, the largest museum in the world dedicated solely to the study of the cosmos, will open its door to the public next week.
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Here’s SpaceX’s new Drone Ship: “A Shortfall of Gravitas”
How did Supermassive Black Holes Form? Collapsing Dark Matter Halos can Explain Them
From the way These Stars Look, a Supernova is Inevitable
According to Elon, Starship Could Chomp up Space Junk
Elon Musk recently suggested that the Starship could be configured to "chomp up" orbital debris.
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Exploding Material From a Gamma-ray Burst Scrambled Nearby Magnetic Fields
Report Suggests That Astronauts Shouldn't get More Than 600 Millisieverts of Radiation Exposure During Their Career. We get 2-3 a Year Down Here on Earth
The Sun is Mellow Yellow Today. Billions of Years Ago? Not So Much
A Nearby White Dwarf Might be About to Collapse Into a Neutron Star
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our Moon. It's already revolutionizing what we know about these mysterious stellar objects.
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Using Saturn's Rings to Figure out What's Inside the Planet
The Milky Way's Central bar Spin-Rate is Slowing Down Thanks to Dark Matter
Venus' Surface Tectonics is More Like Pack ice on Earth
Richard Branson and Friends Reach the Edge of Space, and Lived to Tell About it!
Richard Branson just returned form the edge of space to announce that a new era of space exploration is upon us!
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Does Mercury Have a big Iron Core Because it's so Close to the Sun's Magnetic Field?
Richard Branson will fly on SpaceShipTwo this weekend. Welcome to the New (Edge of) Space Race!
On Sunday, July 11th (weather permitting), Richard Branson will become the first billionaire to go to space, beating Jeff Bezos there by nine days!
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Satellite Images Can Help Predict When Underwater Volcanos are About to Erupt
The Earth's Atmosphere is Storing Energy Twice as Quickly as it did 15 Years ago
After British Columbia's Record-Breaking Heatwave, Here Come the Wildfires
NASA just released a series of satellite images that show the wildfires currently raging in British Columbia's interior.
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Wally Funk From the Mercury 13 Will be Joining Jeff Bezos on his Flight to the Edge of Space
Wally Funk, a pioneer in the field of aerospace and a member of the Mercury 13 program, will be accompanying Jeff Bezos to space this month!
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We Might Know why There's so Little Antimatter in the Universe
Chinese Astronauts Take Their First Spacewalk Outside the new Station
There are Probably Many More Earth-Sized Worlds Than Previously Believed
The Streetlights in an Entire County Were Swapped to LEDs. Light Pollution got Worse
Multiple Earth-Mass Rogue Planets Have Been Discovered Drifting Through the Milky Way
Cassini Saw Methane in Enceladus' Plumes. Scientists Don't Know How it Could be There Without Life
Researchers Have Taught a Drone to Recognize and Hunt Down Meteorites Autonomously
After Just 6 Weeks of Construction, Super Heavy is Built and Ready to Move
SpaceX just rolled its Super Heavy Booster prototype (B3) onto the test pad at Boca Chica, bringing the company closer to its first orbital test flight (expected later this year)
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The "Crisis in Cosmology" Might not be a Crisis After all
Our measurements of cosmic expansion might be better than we've thought. Maybe even good enough to make cosmic tension go away.
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Satellites can Track Microplastics From Space
One of the Brightest Star-Forming Regions in the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared
The Square Kilometer Array has Gotten the Official Green Light to Begin Construction
The Square Kilometer Array, the largest radio telescope ever proposed, just commenced construction in South Africa and Australia.
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Potentially More Subsurface Lakes Found on Mars
NASA is Testing out new Composite Materials for Building Lightweight Solar Sail Supports
Astronomers see an Accretion Disk Where Planets are About to Form
Hawking Made a Prediction About Black Holes, and Physicists Just Confirmed it
Astronomers have found the first evidence that black holes follow the laws of thermodynamics.
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Unfortunately, There are Other Viable Explanations for the Subsurface Lakes on Mars
A fresh examination of the data obtained by the Mars Express mission has shown that there may not be lakes beneath the Martian southern polar ice cap.
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Bad News, Life Probably can't Exist on Venus. Good News, it Could be in Jupiter's Clouds
A new NASA-supported study by an international team of researchers has determined that life is more likely to exist in the clouds on Jupiter than on Venus
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The Center of the Milky Way is the Most Likely Place to Find a Galactic Civilization
NASA Continues to Try and Rescue Failing Hubble
The search for Hubble's error continues, and could involve some complex and risky operations really soon!
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A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object
To Take the Best Direct Images of Exoplanets With Space Telescopes, we're Going to Want Starshades
The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) has released a special edition of papers dedicated to educating the public about Starshade and what it can do to narrow the search for Earth-like exoplanets.
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Astronomers Detected a Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger, and Then Another Just 10 Days Later
When black holes collide with neutron stars, all sorts of interesting things happen. And astronomers have recently seen two of them.
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China Releases Sound and Video of its Rover Landing
