Universe Today
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Calculate the Number of Alien Civilizations in the Milky Way for Yourself.
A new online tool created by a team of physicists allows users to calculate how many alien civilization could be out there for themselves!
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Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars
New Hubble Photos of Planetary Nebulae
Astronomers Just Detected Either the Least Massive Black Hole, or a Strange and Massive Neutron Star
Somewhere around 2.5 solar masses is the line between black holes and neutron stars. Now we've found an object right on the edge.
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Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Started Out With Water Oceans, and Have Been Slowly Freezing Solid for Billions of Years
Another Starship Test Ends in an Explosion (Intentionally This Time)
At their Boca Chica test facility, SpaceX tested another Starship prototype (SN7) to the point of failure, which resulted in another explosive release of cryogenic liquid nitrogen.
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There's no evidence that dark matter interacts with any other force but gravity
Planets Form in Just a Few Hundred Thousand Years
A Repeating Fast Radio Burst Has Been Found. It Flares for 4 Days and then Remains Silent for 12 Days
Five hundred million light-years from Earth, there is a deeply unusual object. It is radio silent for 12 days, then erupts in bright radio bursts. We still aren't sure what the object is.
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Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July
Comet U6 Lemmon promises to be a fine binocular object at dusk.
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If You Could See in X-rays, This is What the Universe Would Look Like
Antares is a supergiant star that would fill the Solar System beyond Mars, but its atmosphere is 12 times bigger than that
A New Search for Evidence of Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and University of Rochester have come together (with NASA funding) to launch a new search for advanced alien life!
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Quasars are the Biggest Particle Accelerators in the Universe
There are Features on Titan That Really Look Like Volcanic Craters
A new study supported by the Cassini mission shows how the northern polar region of Titan could still be experiencing volcanic activity.
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Planets With Large Oceans are Probably Common in the Milky Way
A new study by a team of NASA scientists indicates that "ocean worlds," like those in our Solar System, could be very common in our Universe.
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Astronomers Estimate There Are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way
NASA Thinks it's Time to Return to Neptune With its Trident Mission
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a "Surprising Excess of Events"
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point toward proof of dark matter.
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Weekly Space Hangout: June 17, 2020 — Dana Backman, Director of NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
ExoMars Sees the Martian Atmosphere Glowing Green
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) recently spotted a green glow in Mars' atmosphere, which is similar to what Earth's atmosphere experiences.
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Catch a Solstice 'Ring of Fire' Annular Solar Eclipse Over Africa and Asia This Weekend
Ready for the first solar eclipse of the year? This weekend sees one of the top draw astronomical events for 2020, with an annular solar eclipse spanning eastern Africa and Southern Asia on Sunday, June 21st.
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Searching for the End of the Universe's "Dark Age"
Why Pulsars Are So Bright
What Does it Mean to Be a Space Architect?
In a recent article, space architect Anastasia Prosina explores the concept of space architecture and how it will play a major role in humanity's future.
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Book Review: Atlas of Solar Eclipses 2020 to 2045
Anyone who has stood in the shadow of the Moon during totality knows the thrill of a total solar eclipse. There's great new atlas for planning your next great eclipse-chasing adventure, the Atlas of Solar Eclipses 2020 to 2045 by eclipse-chaser and cartographer Michael Zeiler and Michael E. Bakich is an indispensable resource.
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Virgin Orbit's first air-launched rocket launch fails
Pulsars Confirm One of Einstein's Best Ideas, That Freefall Really Feels Like You're Experiencing a Lack of Gravity
A team of European researchers observed a pulsar with two orbiting white dwarfs to confirm Einstein's "most fortunate thought."
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 2608, Surrounded by Many Many Other Galaxies
Newborn Exoplanets can be Completely Stripped of Their Atmosphere by Stars
Spacecraft was able to measure how long neutrons last before they decay
Tiny Cubesat Detects an Exoplanet
A team of MIT researchers have observed a Super-Earth using a CubeSat, making it the smallest satellite to study an exoplanet.
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New Estimate Calculates There Could be 30 Intelligent Civilizations Communicating Across the Milky Way
New Pictures of Phobos, Seen in the Infrared
Space Dust Delivered Water to Vesta, Could it Have Done the Same for Earth?
Hilarious Supercut of Astronauts Falling on the Moon
Scientists are much better at predicting when the Sun is going to become more active
Well. It Looks Like James Webb is Getting Delayed Again, but it Should Still Launch in 2021
Evidence is Building that the Standard Model of the Expansion of the Universe Needs some new Ideas
Astronomers have measured the Hubble constant using astrophysical masers, and the result makes our understanding of cosmic expansion even worse.
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New Horizons is so Far From Earth That the Positions of the Stars Look a Little Different From its Perspective
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not only groundbreaking, but historic!
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A 2nd Planet has been Confirmed for Proxima Centauri
How SpaceX is Changing Starship to be Able to Land on the Moon
Elon Musk recently revealed more details about the HLS Starship, which could be taking astronauts back to the Moon.
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This is a Binary Star in the Process of Formation
Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming... on Mars?
The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on Mars.
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Early Life Was Pumping Out Oxygen, But the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing it
Once Starship Prototypes are Done Exploding, we could see an Orbital Launch this Year
According to a leaked internal email, SpaceX is all-in on the development of the Starship, which the company's chief engineer says could make an orbital flight before the end of the year.
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Titan is Drifting Away from Saturn Surprisingly Quickly
Neutron Stars Could Have a Layer of Exotic Quark Matter Inside Them
Deep inside a neutron star, neutrons are packed so tightly that they can break apart into quarks. As a result neutron stars likely have a quark core.
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It Should Be Easiest to Search for Young Earth-like Planets When They're Completely Covered in Magma
