Universe Today
Dust in the Chixalub Crater Makes the Compelling Case That an Asteroid Wiped out the Dinosaurs 65 Million Years ago
Space Missions are Building Up a Detailed Map of the Sun's Magnetic Field
NASA is Considering a Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
A Single Dust Devil on Mars
Another Big Iceberg Just Broke off from Antarctica
The ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite recently spotted an iceberg the size of New York City breaking off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
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Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is Getting an Upgraded new Infrared Filter
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope just received a new infrared filter that will allow it to explore even more of the cosmos!
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Almost all High-Energy Neutrinos Come From Quasars
Earth is blasted by high-energy neutrinos from the most powerful objects in the universe.
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A New Study Says That Betelgeuse Won't Be Exploding Any Time Soon
How Would Rain be Different on an Alien World?
A new study takes a look at possible rainfall patterns on exoplanets, which could help narrow the search for extraterrestrial life in the coming years!
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Earth's Atmosphere Can Generate a "Space Hurricane"
Mining Water and Metal From the Moon at the Same Time
NASA Invests in a Plan to Build Landing Pads and Other Structures on the Moon out of Regolith
The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies
SpaceX's Starship Prototype Flies High AND Sticks the Landing!
Today, SpaceX completed its third high-altitude test flight with a Starship prototype (SN10). This time, the test ended with a successful landing!
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New Perspective of Jezero Crater Shows the Path Perseverance Could use to Navigate
NASA has released images that show the path Perseverance could take through the Jezero crater during its primary mission.
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What Happens if Perseverance Finds Life on Mars?
It's a fair question, isn't it? What IF Perseverance finds evidence of life on Mars? What will the implications of this be?
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Could Get A Starshade Of Its Own
Jupiter has Added a Comet to its Trojan Collection
Sand Dunes on Mars Shift From Season to Season
A new Method to Capture High-Resolution Images of Space Debris
An Exotic Explanation for the Most Extreme Gravitational Wave Detected so far
A new study proposes an exotic boson star to explain the largest gravitational wave merger we've observed.
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Phobos and Deimos: Two Moons, From One Source?
Running the clock back on the enigmatic pair of Martian moons Phobos and Deimos gives researchers insight to their possible origin.
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This Is What Rolling Blackouts Look Like From Space
Perseverance Seen From Space by ESA's ExoMars Orbiter
The ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (part of the ExoMars 2020 mission) has revealed images of the Perseverance rover and where it landed.
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ESA is Working on a Mission to Explore Caves on the Moon
Parker Solar Probe Captured Images of Venus on its way to the Sun
A Review of "Extraterrestrial" by Prof. Avi Loeb
Professor Avi Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, tells the tale of how he 'Oumuamua may be humanity's first interstellar messenger.
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Dust Particles in the Martian Atmosphere can Create Static Electricity, but not Enough to Endanger the Rovers
Some Earth Life Could Already Survive on Mars
Did Ancient Martian Life Eat Rocks For Food?
Astronomers Think They've Found the Neutron Star Remnant Left Behind from Supernova 1987A
One Type of Fast Radio Bursts... Solved?
A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst.
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The Core Of The Milky Way Is An Extreme Place
What a Geologist Sees When They Look at Perseverance's Landing Site
Titan's Atmosphere Recreated in an Earth Laboratory
A recent study led by IBM-Zurich has recreated what goes on in Titan's atmosphere, which could help scientists find evidence of life there in the near future!
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Our Part of the Galaxy is Packed with Binary Stars
The Space Court Foundation Presents: "Women of Color in Space"
The Space Court Foundation has launched a new series titled Women of Color in Space! Their first interview with Ruvimbo Samanga is now available for viewing.
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There was a Secret Code in the Perseverance Parachute
Cygnus X-1 was the First Black Hole Ever Found. New Measurements Show it's Much More Massive Than Previously Believed
New parallax measurements of Cygnus X-1 by the VLBA find it is more distant than we thought, and therefore more massive.
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Perseverance's Landing ... Seen From Orbit!
Since Perseverance is Searching for Life, What Will it Be Looking for?
A map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes Across the Universe
The Low Frequency Array has mapped a portion of the sky at the lowest radio frequencies ever, revealing more than 25,000 supermassive black holes.
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Watch Perseverance Land on Mars. Mind...Blown
How Long Will Space Junk Take to Burn Up? Here's a Handy Chart
There's Evidence That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere With Less Oxygen. A Possible Biosignature For Life?
The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old
Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby
Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets relatively close to Earth.
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Once He Steps Down From Amazon, Jeff Bezos Will be Able to Focus his Energy on Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos' recent decision to step down as CEO of Amazon could be good news for Blue Origin, one of SpaceX's chief competitors!
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Did a Comet Wipe out the Dinosaurs?
