Universe Today (Page 129)

Iceland is a Similar Environment to Ancient Mars

By Matthew Williams - January 28, 2021 03:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study conducted by NASA scientists and Rice University shows how Iceland's environment is the closest analog on Earth for ancient Mars

Saturn Got Its Tilt From Its Moons

By Andy Tomaswick - January 28, 2021 01:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May

By Nancy Atkinson - January 28, 2021 11:31 AM UTC | Missions

Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of Biosphere 2 Inspired SAM²

By Matthew Williams - January 27, 2021 07:02 PM UTC | Space Policy

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

Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn't Have any Clouds

By Evan Gough - January 27, 2021 04:20 PM UTC | Exoplanets

All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far

By Andy Tomaswick - January 27, 2021 02:02 PM UTC | Physics

Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise

By David Dickinson - January 27, 2021 12:00 PM UTC | Observing

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.

What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?

By Andy Tomaswick - January 27, 2021 11:55 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Solar Orbiter Caught Venus, Earth and Mars in One of its Photos

By Nancy Atkinson - January 27, 2021 11:44 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Galileo's Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it

By Paul Sutter - January 27, 2021 11:03 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Axiom Space Reveals the Crew for Its First Space Odyssey in 2022 (Sorry, Tom Cruise)

By Alan Boyle - January 27, 2021 12:32 AM UTC | Space Exploration

You Know it's Spring on Mars When the Carbon Dioxide is Starting to Sublimate

By Paul Sutter - January 26, 2021 10:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science

One of the Oldest Stars in the Galaxy has a Planet. Rocky Planets Were Forming at Nearly the Beginning of the Universe

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2021 03:21 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA has Chosen 4 new Pioneer Missions: Aspera, Pandora, StarBurst, and PEUO

By Andy Tomaswick - January 26, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Missions

A Cubesat Will Test out Water as a Propulsion System

By Andy Tomaswick - January 26, 2021 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Away From the Light Pollution of the Inner Solar System, New Horizons was Able to see how Dark the Universe Really is

By Paul Sutter - January 26, 2021 10:45 AM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers Hoped to see Evidence of Dark Matter Particles Inside Betelgeuse. No Luck

By Paul Sutter - January 25, 2021 10:34 PM UTC | Cosmology

Tree Rings Reveal 1,000 Years of Solar Activity

By Evan Gough - January 25, 2021 07:52 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Why do Planetary Nebulae Look the Way They Do?

By Evan Gough - January 25, 2021 05:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science

There are Seven Rocky Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System and They're Surprisingly Similar

By Andy Tomaswick - January 25, 2021 11:56 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Lightweight Iodine Thruster Could Help Solve Space Junk Problem

By Andy Tomaswick - January 25, 2021 11:36 AM UTC | Space Policy

An Active Galaxy That Erupts Predictably Every 114 Days Or So

By Andy Tomaswick - January 25, 2021 11:14 AM UTC | Extragalactic

A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes

By Matthew Williams - January 24, 2021 07:32 PM UTC | 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.

Starships Will be Launching From These Oil Drilling Platforms Bought by SpaceX

By Matthew Williams - January 24, 2021 04:11 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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

3-D Printing on the Moon. From Regolith to Paste to Useful Objects and Structures

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Massive Binary Stars Huddle Up Surprisingly Quickly

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 12:50 PM UTC | Stars

The Largest Sea On Titan Could Be Over 300 Meters Deep

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 10:27 AM UTC | Planetary Science

You Can Actually See the Milky Way's Wave When You Map Its Stars

By Andy Tomaswick - January 23, 2021 03:22 PM UTC | Milky Way

In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More Supermassive

By Brian Koberlein - January 23, 2021 12:32 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study proposes that the upper mass limit for black holes could be a million times larger than we thought.

The Universe in Formation. Hubble Sees 6 Examples of Merging Galaxies

By mcimone - January 23, 2021 12:11 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane

By Matthew Williams - January 22, 2021 04:53 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near future.

The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 03:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Only 31 Magnetars Have Ever Been Discovered. This one is Extra Strange. It's Also a Pulsar

By Andy Tomaswick - January 22, 2021 02:58 PM UTC | Stars

The One Place on the Space Station Astronauts Aren't Supposed to Clean

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 12:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs

By Brian Koberlein - January 21, 2021 05:51 PM UTC | Stars

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.

Mars has Been Through Many Ice Ages in the Last Billion Years

By Evan Gough - January 21, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System

By Matthew Williams - January 20, 2021 10:32 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal from the inventor of the E-sail shows how we could create an Earth-like space habitat around Ceres, which could be a gateway to the rest of the Solar System