Universe Today
Here's a Clever Idea, Looking for the Shadows of Trees On Exoplanets to Detect Multicellular Life
The Carina Nebula. Seen With and Without Adaptive Optics
Lakes On Titan Will Have Layers, Like Lakes On Earth, But for a Completely Different Reason
The Colorful Walls of an Exposed Impact Crater on Mars
Machine Learning Software is Now Doing the Exhausting Task of Counting Craters On Mars
What the Astronauts Saw as They Orbited the Moon During Apollo 17
Those are Exoplanets. You're Looking at Actual Exoplanets 63 Light-Years Away!
By combining two exoplanet detection methods for the first time ever, the GRAVITY collaboration has confirmed the existence of a second planet around Beta Pictoris
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Einstein. Right again
Astronomers can now test the limit of relativity and whether new physics lies beyond Einstein's model.
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Did Pioneer See Phosphine in the Clouds of Venus Decades Ago?
A Supernova Exploded Dangerously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
What Decides the Shape of Planetary Nebulae? Whatever's Orbiting a Star When it Dies
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XI: What is the Transcension Hypothesis
Could it be that the reason we haven't heard from any aliens is because they transcended and aren't interested in talking anymore?
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A Balloon Mission that Could Try to Confirm Life On Venus
Mars Express Finds Even More Ponds of Water Under the Ground on Mars
A reexamination of data obtained by the Mars Express probe has found more evidence of stable bodies of water beneath the southern polar icecap on Mars.
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NASA Has a New Challenge to Bring Frozen Samples of the Moon Back to Earth
The NASA Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to bring back ice samples from the Moon
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Weekly Space Hangout: September 30, 2020, Dr. John Kiss Discusses the Growth of Plants in Space
Testing the Rover That'll Land on Phobos
Astronomers think they've found an exoplanet in a galaxy 23 million light-years away
Cheops Finds a World That's Utterly Alien From Anything We Have in the Solar System
A Galaxy has been Found That's as Bright as a Quasar... But it's Not a Quasar
Another Starship Test Tank is Pushed to the Limit and Explodes
SpaceX just passed another milestone with the SN7.1 test tank, which they tested to failure by pressurizing it until it exploded
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Maybe Volcanoes Could Explain the Phosphine in Venus' Atmosphere
Is There Life Deep Underground on Mars?
Astronomers Find a New Binary Object in the Kuiper Belt
Just A Couple Of Weeks From Now, OSIRIS-REx Will Grab A Sample From Bennu
Climate Change is Making the Atmosphere Worse for Astronomy
We Might Have a New Mini-Moon Soon
New Radio Telescope Is Going to Fly to the Far Side of the Moon to Listen to the Signals From the Early Universe
Ancient Terrain on Venus Looks Like it Was Formed Through Volcanism
A new study shows that some of the oldest surface features on Venus (tesserae) were likely formed by volcanic activity
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The Newest Picture of Jupiter and Europa Captured by Hubble
Video Shows a Meteoroid Skipping off Earth's Atmosphere
NASA's New Budget for Artemis? $28 Billion
Just in time for the upcoming elections, NASA has presented Congress with the projected budget for sending astronauts back to the Moon!
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Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" X: What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?
In this latest instalment, we explore the possibility that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, and that intelligent species will become more common with time.
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Time Travel, Without the Pesky Paradoxes
So you've built a time machine. What prevents you from creating a paradox that dooms us all?
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Gaia has Already Given Us 5 New Insights Into the Milky Way
NASA Releases a New Poster for the Europa Clipper Mission
In anticipation of this upcoming mission, NASA has released a stunning poster for the Europa Clipper mission!
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See a 360 Degree Juno-Eye View of Jupiter During an Io Eclipse
Hayabusa2's Mission isn't Over. It has a New Asteroid Target to Visit: 1998 KY26
Astronauts are Getting a New Toilet Next Week
The Shadow from M87's Supermassive Black Hole has Been Observed Wobbling Around the Galaxy for Years
Over the past decade, the shadow of a black hole in M87 has been wobbling, which tells us about how matter behaves near a black hole.
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A New Mass Extinction has been Discovered, Wiping Out Life 233 Million Years Ago, and Leading to the Rise of the Dinosaurs
Here's Jupiter from Juno's Latest Flyby
Perseverance Will be Scanning Inside Rocks for Fossils on Mars
When it arrives on Mars next year, Perseverance will use a next-generation X-ray scanner assisted by AI to search for the fossil remains of ancient life!
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Weekly Space Hangout: September 23, 2020, Col. Terry Virts (USAF ret.) Tells Us "How to Astronaut"
Even Comets Can Have Auroras. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Does
Solar Cycle 25 has arrived. Here's what to expect from the Sun in the coming months and years
There Could Be Carbon-Rich Exoplanets Made Of Diamonds
Chinese Asteroid Mining Robot Due to Launch in November
Chitin Could be the Perfect Building Material on Mars
Asteroid Bennu has little pieces of Vesta on it
