Universe Today
A new Class of Exoplanets can Shrink, From Subneptunes Into Superearths
Physicists Figure out how to Make Gravitational Wave Detectors "Hear" 6x More Universe
What Could We Learn From a Mission to Phobos?
According to new research that looks at MAVEN data, Mars' larger moon (Phobos) could contain a record of how Mars' underwent significant climate change.
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SN9 Tests Ends With a Boom. You're Up SN10
SpaceX just conducted their second high-altitude flight tests, which once again ended in an explosion. On to SN10!
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When Galaxies Collide, Black Holes Don't Always Get the Feast They Were Hoping for
MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
Astronomers are Starting to Understand the Quasar Lifecycle
Galaxy Mergers can Boost Star Formation, and it can Also Shut it Down
A Sunlike Star Found With Four (No, Five!) Exoplanets Orbiting It
Thanks to an international team astronomers led from MIT, a nearby Sun-like star has been spotted with a system of five exoplanets, making it the perfect target for observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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A Crater on Venus Indicates the Planet Hasn't Been Volcanic for a Long Time
Neutrinos Have a Newly Discovered Method of Interacting With Matter, Opening up Ways to Find Them
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently conducted another neutrino experiment that could lead to the discovery of new physics.
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White Dwarf Atmospheres Might Contain the Pulverized Crusts of Their Dead Planets
2020 Ties for the Hottest Year on Record
According to NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), 2020 tied 2016 for being the hottest year on record!
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We Now Have a 3D Map of The 525 Closest Brown Dwarfs
Iceland is a Similar Environment to Ancient Mars
A new study conducted by NASA scientists and Rice University shows how Iceland's environment is the closest analog on Earth for ancient Mars
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Saturn Got Its Tilt From Its Moons
OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May
Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of Biosphere 2 Inspired SAM²
Guided by the lessons of Biosphere 2 experiments, a team of experts is launching the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars (SAM2) experiment to learn what we need to know so we can colonize the Moon and Mars someday
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Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn't Have any Clouds
All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far
Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise
A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online… and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery over a century old.
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What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?
Solar Orbiter Caught Venus, Earth and Mars in One of its Photos
Galileo's Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it
Axiom Space Reveals the Crew for Its First Space Odyssey in 2022 (Sorry, Tom Cruise)
You Know it's Spring on Mars When the Carbon Dioxide is Starting to Sublimate
One of the Oldest Stars in the Galaxy has a Planet. Rocky Planets Were Forming at Nearly the Beginning of the Universe
NASA has Chosen 4 new Pioneer Missions: Aspera, Pandora, StarBurst, and PEUO
A Cubesat Will Test out Water as a Propulsion System
Away From the Light Pollution of the Inner Solar System, New Horizons was Able to see how Dark the Universe Really is
Astronomers Hoped to see Evidence of Dark Matter Particles Inside Betelgeuse. No Luck
Tree Rings Reveal 1,000 Years of Solar Activity
Why do Planetary Nebulae Look the Way They Do?
There are Seven Rocky Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System and They're Surprisingly Similar
Lightweight Iodine Thruster Could Help Solve Space Junk Problem
An Active Galaxy That Erupts Predictably Every 114 Days Or So
A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes
A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us to harness limitless energy from them someday.
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Starships Will be Launching From These Oil Drilling Platforms Bought by SpaceX
SpaceX has just acquired two former oil drilling rigs off the coast of Texas, which it is converting into launch facilities called Phobos and Deimos
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3-D Printing on the Moon. From Regolith to Paste to Useful Objects and Structures
Massive Binary Stars Huddle Up Surprisingly Quickly
The Largest Sea On Titan Could Be Over 300 Meters Deep
You Can Actually See the Milky Way's Wave When You Map Its Stars
In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More Supermassive
A new study proposes that the upper mass limit for black holes could be a million times larger than we thought.
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The Universe in Formation. Hubble Sees 6 Examples of Merging Galaxies
Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane
Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near future.
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The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes
Only 31 Magnetars Have Ever Been Discovered. This one is Extra Strange. It's Also a Pulsar
The One Place on the Space Station Astronauts Aren't Supposed to Clean
Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs
Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break that limit for a time.
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Mars has Been Through Many Ice Ages in the Last Billion Years
