Universe Today (Page 132)

This is Not a Photo of the Milky Way. It's the Map of 1.8 Billion Stars From Gaia's Major New Data Release

By Matthew Williams - December 06, 2020 06:36 PM UTC | Milky Way

Thanks to the latest data release from the ESA's Gaia mission, researchers are making all kinds of discoveries about the Milky Way and how its structure is evolving over time.

If There's Subsurface Water Across Mars, Where is it Safe to Land to Avoid Contamination?

By Paul Sutter - December 06, 2020 09:37 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Chinese Spacecraft Dock in Lunar Orbit for Transfer of Moon Samples – Next Stop, Earth!

By Alan Boyle - December 05, 2020 10:50 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronauts Will be Able to Extract Fuel, Air, and Water From Martian Brine

By Matthew Williams - December 05, 2020 04:17 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A team of researchers have created an electrolyzer that could be a game-changer for exploration missions on Mars.

Japan's Hayabusa 2 Probe Drops Off Bits of an Asteroid and Heads for Its Next Target

By Alan Boyle - December 05, 2020 03:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science

25 Years of Solar Cycles in One Incredible SOHO Mosaic

By Nancy Atkinson - December 04, 2020 03:08 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

An Astronomer Checked to see if There's a Secret Message in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

By Brian Koberlein - December 04, 2020 03:04 PM UTC | Cosmology

One way to look for a message in the cosmic microwave background is to convert thermal fluctuations into a binary string. So what does it say?

Our Guide to This Month's Total Solar Eclipse Over South America

By David Dickinson - December 04, 2020 12:53 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

2020 closes out with the final eclipse of the decade, as totality crosses the southern tip of South America on December 14th.

Solid Phosphorus has been Found in Comets. This Means They Contain All the Raw Elements for Life

By Evan Gough - December 03, 2020 07:04 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Weekly Space Hangout: December 2, 2020 – Dr. Ingrid Daubar, Planetary Scientist, Brown University

By nancygraz - December 03, 2020 05:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Now you can Watch Actual Video of Arecibo Collapsing ... If You Dare

By Nancy Atkinson - December 03, 2020 02:36 PM UTC | Telescopes

China's Chang'e-5 Probe Blasts Off From the Moon, Bringing Back a Full Load of Samples

By Alan Boyle - December 03, 2020 12:56 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Australian Radio Telescopes Just Completed a map of the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - December 03, 2020 12:10 PM UTC | Cosmology

CSIRO has made a detailed radio survey of the southern hemisphere, and discovered a million new galaxies.

Take a Look at What China's Chang'e-5 Probe Is Seeing (and Doing) on the Moon

By Alan Boyle - December 02, 2020 06:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Spacefaring Worms Show How Gravity Affects Genes

By Matthew Williams - December 02, 2020 06:17 PM UTC | Astrobiology

New research involving nemotode worms aboard the ISS have shown that the effects of microgravity extend to the genetic level.

This is Mawrth Vallis on Mars, and it's Positively Bursting with Evidence of Past Water Action on Mars

By Evan Gough - December 02, 2020 04:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Neutrinos Have Played a Huge Role in the Evolution of the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - December 02, 2020 11:50 AM UTC | Cosmology

Neutrinos are a form of dark matter, and they play a role in the evolution of the universe.

Will the Starship Make a 15 km Hop Test on Wednesday?

By Matthew Williams - December 01, 2020 07:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration

According to recent statements and preparations at Boca Chica, SpaceX could be attempting a high-altitude flight test with the Starship as early as tomorrow!

In the Far Future, Stellar Flybys Will Completely Dismantle the Solar System

By Evan Gough - December 01, 2020 04:30 PM UTC | Milky Way

Spiral-shaped Planetary Disks Should Be More Common. Giant Planets Might Be Disrupting Their Formation

By Andy Tomaswick - December 01, 2020 02:20 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Satellites can see the pollution trails from individual ships

By Andy Tomaswick - December 01, 2020 01:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Arecibo Observatory Platform Has Collapsed

By Nancy Atkinson - December 01, 2020 12:51 PM UTC | Telescopes

China's Chang'e-5 Probe Lands on the Moon and Gets Set to Bring Back Fresh Samples

By Alan Boyle - December 01, 2020 12:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New jets seen blasting out of the center of a galaxy

By Paul Sutter - November 30, 2020 10:03 PM UTC | Extragalactic

My Dad Made a Table That Looks Surprisingly Like Jupiter

By Fraser Cain - November 30, 2020 07:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers find a galaxy that had its dark matter siphoned away

By Paul Sutter - November 30, 2020 06:35 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XII: What is the Waterworlds Hypothesis?

By Matthew Williams - November 30, 2020 05:31 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Is it possible that the reason we haven't heard from any aliens is because there's too much water out there?

Hayabusa 2's Sample is Landing on Earth December 6th

By Nancy Atkinson - November 30, 2020 03:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new measurement puts the Sun 2,000 light-years closer to the center of the Milky Way

By Brian Koberlein - November 30, 2020 11:53 AM UTC | Milky Way

Ultra-precise measurements of stars in our galaxy put us closer to galactic center than we thought.

Figuring Out How To Breathe the Moon's Regolith

By Andy Tomaswick - November 30, 2020 01:14 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Polarized light from the cosmic background hints at new physics

By Brian Koberlein - November 29, 2020 12:40 PM UTC | Cosmology

Distant light from the big bang is twisted as it travels to us. This could mean dark matter is more exotic than we thought.

One of These Pictures Is the Brain, the Other is the Universe. Can You Tell Which is Which?

By mcimone - November 28, 2020 04:19 PM UTC | Cosmology

Neutrinos prove the Sun is doing a second kind of fusion in its core

By Brian Koberlein - November 28, 2020 01:13 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Astronomers have detected a fusion cycle in our Sun that powers massive stars and creates the elements central to life in the cosmos.

A third of the stars in the Milky Way came from a single merger 10 billion years ago

By Paul Sutter - November 27, 2020 11:03 PM UTC | Milky Way

ESA Is Going To Spend $102 Million To Remove a Single Piece of Space Junk

By Andy Tomaswick - November 27, 2020 11:01 PM UTC | Space Policy

There's Fabric on the Space Station That Scientists Are Using to "Listen" for Space Dust Impacts

By Andy Tomaswick - November 27, 2020 10:45 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new way to map out dark matter is 10 times more precise than the previous-best method

By Paul Sutter - November 27, 2020 10:05 PM UTC | Cosmology

Every Year NASA Simulates Our View of the Moon for the Upcoming 12 Months. Here's 2021, Hour by Hour

By Evan Gough - November 27, 2020 02:39 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Geysers on Europa might come from pockets of water under the ice

By Andy Tomaswick - November 26, 2020 11:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Moon has Resources, but Not Enough to Go Around

By Matthew Williams - November 26, 2020 05:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains how the Moon may not have enough resources to support everything we plan to build up there.