Universe Today (Page 128)

NASA Announces the Winners of its Second Payload Challenge!

By Matthew Williams - May 04, 2022 02:43 PM UTC | Space Policy

Earlier today, NASA announced the winners of their "Honey, I Shrunk the Payload, the Sequel" Challenge!

Hydrogen Gas Can Seep Through Rock Providing Food to Bacteria. Another Place to Look for Life On Other Worlds.

By Evan Gough - May 04, 2022 02:42 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Ingenuity is now Scouting Ahead of Perseverance, Helping it Navigate Difficult Terrain

By Nancy Atkinson - May 04, 2022 10:43 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring

By Matthew Williams - May 03, 2022 06:55 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive black hole!

Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 03, 2022 03:37 PM UTC | Milky Way

Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 03, 2022 02:55 PM UTC | Black Holes

This is it! On May 12th we'll see the Event Horizon Telescope's Image of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - May 02, 2022 06:43 PM UTC | Milky Way

The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at the ESO's headquarters on May 12th!

Now, We can Finally Compare Webb to Other Infrared Observatories

By Nancy Atkinson - May 02, 2022 05:48 PM UTC | Telescopes

Watch What Happens to Astronauts When the International Space Station Gets an Orbital Reboost

By Nancy Atkinson - May 02, 2022 02:53 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Which Parts of Mars are the Safest From Cosmic Radiation?

By Matthew Williams - May 02, 2022 01:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

In a new study, an international team examines Mars' radiation environment and determined that the best place to build an underground habitat is where the atmosphere is thickest.

Space Lettuce Could Reduce Astronaut Bone Loss

By Andy Tomaswick - May 01, 2022 09:06 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China is Building an Asteroid Deflection Mission of its own, due for Launch in 2025

By Scott Johnston - May 01, 2022 11:07 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Crew-4 is off to the Station

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - April 30, 2022 10:20 PM UTC | Missions

Antarctica Lost an Ice Shelf, but Gained an Island

By Nancy Atkinson - April 30, 2022 09:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Solar Power in a Future Martian Lifestyle

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - April 30, 2022 07:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Titan is an Alien World, but Surprisingly Familiar

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - April 29, 2022 10:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A New Kind of Stellar Explosion Has Been Discovered: Micronovae

By Shawn DiCenza - April 29, 2022 09:14 PM UTC | Stars

Prepare Yourself: New Engineering Images from JWST Will Blow Your Mind

By Nancy Atkinson - April 28, 2022 03:38 PM UTC | Telescopes

Amazing! Ingenuity Helicopter Flies to the Perseverance Backshell and Parachute to See Them Close Up

By Nancy Atkinson - April 28, 2022 12:21 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Ganymede Casts a Long Shadow Across the Surface of Jupiter

By Nancy Atkinson - April 28, 2022 10:07 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Partial Solar Eclipse Kicks Off the First Eclipse Season of 2022

By David Dickinson - April 28, 2022 08:41 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

A remote solar eclipse this coming weekend sets us up for the first total lunar eclipse of 2022.

In Some Places, Black Holes are Tearing Apart Thousands of Stars at a Time

By Matthew Williams - April 27, 2022 10:49 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow by consuming high-density star clusters

Webb Has Almost Reached its Final, Coldest Temperature

By Shawn DiCenza - April 27, 2022 03:16 PM UTC | Telescopes

All Five of Life's Informational Components can Form in Space

By Matthew Williams - April 27, 2022 02:26 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new analysis of meteorite samples has found the building blocks of life that have eluded scientists so far.

Hubble has Characterized 25 Hot Jupiters. Here's What we Know so far

By Nancy Atkinson - April 27, 2022 12:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Shallow Pockets of Water Under the ice on Europa Could Bring Life Close to its Surface

By Matthew Williams - April 26, 2022 04:14 PM UTC | Astrobiology

New research from Standford University has found an explanation for the most prominent features on Europa, based on similar featured observed in Greenland.

Eight Missions are Getting Extensions, Most Exciting: OSIRIS-REx is Going to Asteroid Apophis

By Nancy Atkinson - April 26, 2022 01:27 PM UTC | Missions

Explorers Could Build Bricks on Mars with Bacteria and Pee

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - April 26, 2022 12:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Large Hadron Collider Restarts, Shooting Protons at Record Energy Levels

By Alan Boyle - April 25, 2022 09:30 PM UTC | Physics

There Should be More Evidence of Alien Technology Than Alien Biology Across the Milky Way

By Andy Tomaswick - April 25, 2022 08:47 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Axiom's First Astronauts Return From International Space Station

By Alan Boyle - April 25, 2022 04:48 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA is Ready to try and fix Lucy's Unlatched Solar Panel

By Scott Johnston - April 23, 2022 09:11 PM UTC | Missions

Hubble Checks the Weather on Hot Jupiters. Forecast: 100% Chance of Hellish Conditions

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - April 23, 2022 07:45 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Planetary Decadal Survey Says it's Time for a Mission to Uranus (and Enceladus too!)

By Matthew Williams - April 23, 2022 05:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The recently released Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 has identified some exciting missions and goals for the coming decade!

Slimmed Down Red Giants Had Their Mass Stolen By a Companion Star

By Shawn DiCenza - April 22, 2022 05:11 PM UTC | Stars

Here's Something Rare: a Martian Crater That isn't a Circle. What Happened?

By Nancy Atkinson - April 22, 2022 03:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Holographic Doctors can now Provide Medical Advice on the International Space Station

By Matthew Williams - April 22, 2022 12:14 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Thanks to advances in holographic and teleporting technology, the first "holographic handshake" recently took place between people on Earth and the ISS.