Universe Today
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
A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System
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
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New Drones for Exploring Mars are Getting Tested in Iceland
Astronomers Confirm That Darksat is About Half as Bright as an Unpainted Starlink
This is a Simulation of the Interstellar Medium Flowing Like Smoke Throughout the Milky Way
What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes When Galaxies Collide?
The Solar Wind is More Attracted to the Earth's North Pole Than the South. Why?
The Magnetic Fields Swirling Within the Whirlpool Galaxy
The First Cubesat With a Hall-Effect Thruster has Gone to Space
Planets are Finally Being Discovered Orbiting Farther From Their Stars
We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn.
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Here's the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope
A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any Propellant
This is What the Sun Looked Like for Every Day in 2020
According to the Math, it's Highly Unlikely That an Intelligent Civilization is Located at Alpha Centauri
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial signal - and the results are not good!
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SLS Hot Fire Test Should Have Lasted 8 Minutes, Not 1
NASA accomplished a major milestone today when it conducted a Hot Fire Test of the SLS Core Stage, firing all four of its engines at once.
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The UK is Considering Nuclear Propulsion in Space
The UK Space Agency recently contracted with the British Rolls Royce company to research nuclear propulsion, which could allow for all kinds of deep-space missions!
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James Webb Unfolds Sunshield
Thanks to Perseverance, We're Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like
NASA Has Given Up on Trying to Deploy InSight's Mole
Mars is Still an Active World. Here's a Landslide in Nili Fossae
A image released by the MRO mission shows a landslide near the location where the Perseverance rover will land, illustrating how Mars is still a active world.
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Astronomers see a Hint of the Gravitational Wave Background to the Universe
Astronomers have found evidence of faint gravitational waves using an array of pulsars in our galaxy.
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The Roman Space Telescope's Version of the Hubble Deep Field Will Cover a 100x Larger Area of the Sky
With Funding From Jeff Bezos, MethaneSAT Picks Elon Musk's SpaceX for 2022 Launch
Gateway Foundation Gives a Detailed Update on its Voyager Station Concept
The Gateway Foundation just released a video update for their Voyager Class space station, and announced that big news is coming in a f
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Since There's no Up or Down in Space, How do our Brains Deal With This?
Will Solar Cycle 25 Dazzle or Fizzle in 2021?
A new study suggests that Solar Cycle 25 may be more powerful than previously predicted.
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Astronomers can use Pulsars to Measure Tiny Changes of Acceleration Within the Milky Way, Scanning Internally for Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Dark matter within our galaxy is difficult to map, but a team of astronomers has used pulsars to measure its gravitational pull.
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With its New Extension, Juno is Going to be Visiting Jupiter's Moons
A Robot Made of Ice Could Adapt and Repair Itself on Other Worlds
Astronomers see Swirling Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarf
The Mystery of Sunquakes is Deep; One Million Meters Deep!
SpaceX's Next Idea: to Catch Super Heavy Boosters With the Launch Tower
A new animation shows how SpaceX will "catch" the first stage boosters of their Starship, allowing for faster turnaround and more flights to space.
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This is the Fireworks Galaxy. It's had ten Supernovae in the Last Century Alone
SpaceX Releases a Recap Video of their SN8 Making its Hop Test!
SpaceX just released a recap video of their SN8 making its first-ever high-altitude hop test. Soon enough, the SN9 will be doing the same!
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Winning Urban Farming Ideas for Mars!
The 2020 Mars City Design challenge inspired some truly innovative ideas for urban farming and living sustainably on Mars!
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These Bizarre Cloud Patterns are von Kármán's Vortices, Caused by the air Wrapping Around Tall Islands
Stellar Flares May Not Condemn a Planet's Habitability
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVI: What is the "Dark Forest" Hypothesis?
A recent addition to the list of possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox: nobody is broadcasting because they don't want to be found!
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New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old
A new measure of the cosmic microwave background supports an older universe, and raises more problems for cosmology.
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Big News for SpaceX: Static Fire Today, Hop Test This Weekend?
SpaceX conducted another successful static fire test today in advance of a hop test that could be happening later this week!
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There Should be a few Supernovae in the Milky Way Every Century, but we've Only Seen 5 in the Last 1000 Years. Why?
Japan to Launch 'Wooden Satellite' in 2023
What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.
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Here's the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next
Missing: Supermassive Black Hole With up to 100 BILLION Times the Mass of the Sun
