Universe Today (Page 130)

The UK is Considering Nuclear Propulsion in Space

By Matthew Williams - January 15, 2021 08:14 PM UTC | Space Policy

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!

James Webb Unfolds Sunshield

By sdice - January 15, 2021 06:17 PM UTC | Telescopes

Thanks to Perseverance, We're Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like

By Nancy Atkinson - January 15, 2021 02:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Has Given Up on Trying to Deploy InSight's Mole

By Evan Gough - January 14, 2021 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars is Still an Active World. Here's a Landslide in Nili Fossae

By Matthew Williams - January 14, 2021 04:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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.

Astronomers see a Hint of the Gravitational Wave Background to the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - January 14, 2021 03:29 PM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers have found evidence of faint gravitational waves using an array of pulsars in our galaxy.

The Roman Space Telescope's Version of the Hubble Deep Field Will Cover a 100x Larger Area of the Sky

By Evan Gough - January 14, 2021 01:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

With Funding From Jeff Bezos, MethaneSAT Picks Elon Musk's SpaceX for 2022 Launch

By Alan Boyle - January 13, 2021 10:04 PM UTC | Missions

Gateway Foundation Gives a Detailed Update on its Voyager Station Concept

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2021 05:44 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The Gateway Foundation just released a video update for their Voyager Class space station, and announced that big news is coming in a f

Since There's no Up or Down in Space, How do our Brains Deal With This?

By Nancy Atkinson - January 13, 2021 03:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Will Solar Cycle 25 Dazzle or Fizzle in 2021?

By David Dickinson - January 13, 2021 11:39 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

A new study suggests that Solar Cycle 25 may be more powerful than previously predicted.

Astronomers can use Pulsars to Measure Tiny Changes of Acceleration Within the Milky Way, Scanning Internally for Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By Brian Koberlein - January 13, 2021 11:32 AM UTC | Milky Way

Dark matter within our galaxy is difficult to map, but a team of astronomers has used pulsars to measure its gravitational pull.

With its New Extension, Juno is Going to be Visiting Jupiter's Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - January 12, 2021 04:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Robot Made of Ice Could Adapt and Repair Itself on Other Worlds

By Evan Gough - January 12, 2021 03:27 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers see Swirling Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarf

By Paul Sutter - January 11, 2021 10:29 PM UTC | Stars

The Mystery of Sunquakes is Deep; One Million Meters Deep!

By rcrewe - January 11, 2021 10:01 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

SpaceX's Next Idea: to Catch Super Heavy Boosters With the Launch Tower

By Matthew Williams - January 11, 2021 07:12 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new animation shows how SpaceX will "catch" the first stage boosters of their Starship, allowing for faster turnaround and more flights to space.

This is the Fireworks Galaxy. It's had ten Supernovae in the Last Century Alone

By Paul Sutter - January 11, 2021 06:44 PM UTC | Extragalactic

SpaceX Releases a Recap Video of their SN8 Making its Hop Test!

By Matthew Williams - January 09, 2021 05:59 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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!

Winning Urban Farming Ideas for Mars!

By Matthew Williams - January 09, 2021 03:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The 2020 Mars City Design challenge inspired some truly innovative ideas for urban farming and living sustainably on Mars!

These Bizarre Cloud Patterns are von Kármán's Vortices, Caused by the air Wrapping Around Tall Islands

By Evan Gough - January 08, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Stellar Flares May Not Condemn a Planet's Habitability

By Evan Gough - January 08, 2021 12:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVI: What is the "Dark Forest" Hypothesis?

By Matthew Williams - January 07, 2021 06:48 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A recent addition to the list of possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox: nobody is broadcasting because they don't want to be found!

New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old

By Brian Koberlein - January 07, 2021 11:35 AM UTC | Cosmology

A new measure of the cosmic microwave background supports an older universe, and raises more problems for cosmology.

Big News for SpaceX: Static Fire Today, Hop Test This Weekend?

By Matthew Williams - January 06, 2021 08:03 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX conducted another successful static fire test today in advance of a hop test that could be happening later this week!

There Should be a few Supernovae in the Milky Way Every Century, but we've Only Seen 5 in the Last 1000 Years. Why?

By Paul Sutter - January 06, 2021 07:29 PM UTC | Milky Way

Japan to Launch 'Wooden Satellite' in 2023

By David Dickinson - January 06, 2021 11:52 AM UTC | Missions

What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.

Here's the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next

By Evan Gough - January 05, 2021 07:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Missing: Supermassive Black Hole With up to 100 BILLION Times the Mass of the Sun

By Paul Sutter - January 05, 2021 05:58 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers set a new Record and Find the Farthest Galaxy. Its Light Took 13.4 Billion Years to Reach us

By Matthew Williams - January 05, 2021 05:45 PM UTC | Extragalactic

The Interior of Enceladus Looks Really Great for Supporting Life

By Evan Gough - January 05, 2021 01:28 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Chang'e-5 Brought Home 1.7 Kilograms of Lunar Samples

By Nancy Atkinson - January 05, 2021 01:18 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Discover Hundreds of High-Velocity Stars, Many on Their Way Out of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - January 04, 2021 05:51 PM UTC | Milky Way

Combining data from two of the largest databases in the world, an international team of astronomers was able to doubledthe number of known high-velocity stars

Astronomers Improve Their Distance Scale for the Universe. Unfortunately, it Doesn't Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology

By Brian Koberlein - January 03, 2021 12:17 PM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers have made the cosmic distant ladder more accurate, but that has only made the mystery of cosmic expansion even worse.

The Personnel of Space Force Will be Called Guardians

By Matthew Williams - January 02, 2021 06:19 PM UTC | Space Policy

According to VP Mike Pence, personnel serving in the U.S. Space Force will henceforth be known as "Guardians"!

Some of Hayabusa2's Samples are as Big as a Centimeter

By mcimone - January 01, 2021 06:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Plans for a Mars Sample Return Mission Have Moved to the Next Stage

By Matthew Williams - December 31, 2020 07:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, a joint effort between NASA and the ESA to bring samples of Mars back to Earth, just moved into the next phase of development!

Layers Upon Layers of Rock in Candor Chasma on Mars

By rcrewe - December 31, 2020 10:40 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Planetary Scientists Have Created a Map of Mars' Entire Ancient River Systems

By Andy Tomaswick - December 30, 2020 05:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Steampunk Engine to Solve Your Satellite Woes!

By Matthew Williams - December 30, 2020 05:34 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA contractor Howe Industries just presented their design for a "steampunk" engine that could allow satellites to maneuver, without the need for toxic propellants or heavy engines.