Universe Today (Page 144)

Spot SpaceX's Crew Dragon After This Weekend's Historic Launch

By David Dickinson - May 26, 2020 02:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration

How to see SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo One mission in orbit Wednesday night.

Tiny Cardboard Aircraft Could Fly in the Skies of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - May 26, 2020 02:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and SpaceX Gearing Up For Historic Crew Dragon Launch This Week

By Matthew Williams - May 26, 2020 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the Demo-2 mission this week, which will see the Crew Dragon launch from the Kennedy Space Center and rendezvous with the ISS.

The Coast of Antarctica is Starting to Turn Green

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 05:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

This is an Actual Image of a Planet-Forming Disc in a Distant Star System

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 02:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets

U.S. Space Force is Looking For a Place to Put its Headquarters

By Matthew Williams - May 24, 2020 04:34 PM UTC | Space Policy

The US Space Force has announced that it is looking for a place to establish its new HQ, and is encouraging communities across the US to nominate themselves based on a set of criteria.

Maybe a Fleet of Tiny Spacecraft Could Help Detect a Primordial Black Hole Planet 9

By Brian Koberlein - May 24, 2020 02:50 PM UTC | Black Holes

The SpaceX Starship Could Fly This Summer!

By Matthew Williams - May 22, 2020 10:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Despite an unexpected fire during the latest static fire test, SpaceX's Starship prototype is alive and well and closer to flight-testing.

OSIRIS-REx Will Collect a Sample from Bennu on October 20th

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 05:41 PM UTC | Missions

Ocean Circulation Might Be the Key to Finding Habitable Exoplanets

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 03:42 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Magnetic north is migrating towards Siberia. Here's why

By Paul Sutter - May 22, 2020 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Space Force is Starting to Train its Soldiers to Fight... in Space?

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Space Policy

The US Space Force just announced that they will begin training so its new officers can become specialists in specific fields, like orbital warfare, electronic warfare, and space battle management.

Weekly Space Hangout: May 20, 2020 — Dr. Sarah McAnulty from Skype A Scientist

By nancygraz - May 21, 2020 04:18 PM UTC | Site News

Astronomers Are Sure These Are Two Newborn Planets Orbiting a Distant Star

By Evan Gough - May 21, 2020 01:49 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns

By Paul Sutter - May 21, 2020 08:18 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA is Giving the SLS a "Green Run" to Prepare it for Launch in Late 2021

By Matthew Williams - May 20, 2020 08:39 PM UTC | Missions

Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have resumed tests of the Core Stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) in anticipation of its inaugural launch next year.

40 Years Ago, Mount St. Helens Blew its Top Off

By Evan Gough - May 20, 2020 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses Discovered to Help Study the Distant Universe

By Brian Koberlein - May 20, 2020 12:30 PM UTC | Cosmology

Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction

By David Dickinson - May 20, 2020 12:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What's that? You say you've never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won't have an excuse after this weekend, when the innermost world meets brilliant Venus at dusk, for one of the best planetary conjunctions for 2020.

NASA Proposes the Artemis Accords. The New Rules for Lunar Exploration

By Matthew Williams - May 19, 2020 05:58 PM UTC | Space Policy

NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords.

Space Force Launches its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane

By Matthew Williams - May 19, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The US Space Force, in conjunction with the USAF and the ULA, just launched the X-37B spaceplane for the sixth time!

This Laser Powered Rover Could Stay in the Shadows on the Moon and Continue to Explore

By Evan Gough - May 19, 2020 04:33 PM UTC | Missions

TESS is Also Helping Astronomers Study Bizarre Pulsating Stars

By Evan Gough - May 19, 2020 02:00 PM UTC | Stars

The Tunguska Explosion Could Have Been Caused By An Asteroid That Still Orbits The Sun

By Brian Koberlein - May 19, 2020 11:59 AM UTC | Planetary Science

If Rockets were Transparent: Video Shows You How Rockets Use up Their Propellant

By Nancy Atkinson - May 18, 2020 11:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Take a Peek Inside a Giant Star Right Before it Dies

By Paul Sutter - May 15, 2020 09:33 PM UTC | Stars

Earth Life Probably Can't Spread to Mars Today

By Matthew Williams - May 15, 2020 06:04 PM UTC | Astrobiology

New research says life from Earth isn't likely to ever survive on Mars, which is good news as far as planetary protection concerns are involved.

Was Betelgeuse Formed by Merging Stars?

By Evan Gough - May 15, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Stars

High Energy Neutrinos Are Coming From Supermassive Black Holes

By Brian Koberlein - May 15, 2020 02:54 PM UTC | Black Holes

Some neutrinos are so energetic we don't know how they are produced. But a clue lies in the heart of distant quasars.

James Webb is Fully Stowed Into its Launch Configuration

By Evan Gough - May 15, 2020 02:23 PM UTC | Telescopes

China's New Crew Capsule Just Landed, and so Did Parts of their New Rocket!

By Matthew Williams - May 15, 2020 02:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China's next-generation crewed spacecraft recently returned to Earth after a successful test flight. The Long March 5B rocket that sent it up did as well (parts of it, anyway!)

Astronomers Continue to Analyze Pluto's Atmosphere

By Evan Gough - May 14, 2020 06:47 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Even More Evidence that Europa has Geysers

By Nancy Atkinson - May 14, 2020 06:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Space Force is About to Launch its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Again

By Matthew Williams - May 14, 2020 03:07 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The X-37B will be going to space again this Saturday to test a number of experiments, many of which are military in nature and classified!

Finally! InSight's Mole is Making Slow and Steady Progress

By Evan Gough - May 13, 2020 08:03 PM UTC | Missions

Weekly Space Hangout: May 13, 2020 – Dr. Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute

By nancygraz - May 13, 2020 05:45 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Sediments on Mars, Created By Blowing Wind or Flowing Water

By Evan Gough - May 13, 2020 05:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Another Starship Success! Raptor Engine Fires for 4 Seconds and Nothing Explodes

By Matthew Williams - May 13, 2020 03:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX has passed another milestone with their Starship prototype after the successful completion of a static fire test

This "All Terminator" Image of the Moon isn't Actually Possible to See. But it Sure is Beautiful

By Evan Gough - May 13, 2020 03:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Time Travel Into The Future Is Totally Possible

By Paul Sutter - May 13, 2020 02:56 PM UTC | Physics

Better Tires to Drive on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - May 13, 2020 01:42 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA is Going to Try Manufacturing a Telescope Mirror in Space

By Matthew Williams - May 12, 2020 06:52 PM UTC | Telescopes

A process developed by NASA, which could be very useful for building telescopes in space, will soon be tested with an orbital launch.

Perseverance Rover is Getting Tucked Into its Launch Fairing

By Evan Gough - May 12, 2020 05:52 PM UTC | Missions

One Step Closer to Interstellar Travel. A Successful Microgravity Test of a Graphene Light Sail

By Brian Koberlein - May 12, 2020 04:37 PM UTC | Space Exploration

If we want to travel to the stars, we're going to have to be creative. The answer might be light sails made of sheets of graphene.

Spacecraft and Ground Telescopes Work Together to Give us Stunning New Pictures of Jupiter

By Evan Gough - May 12, 2020 01:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Lunar Gateway Could be Built With the Falcon Heavy

By Matthew Williams - May 11, 2020 07:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA has announced that the Lunar Gateway could be launched in the coming years using the Falcon Heavy or another commercial provider.

Newly Reprocessed Images of Europa Make This World Even More Interesting and Mysterious

By Evan Gough - May 11, 2020 05:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Closest Black Hole Found, Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth

By Matthew Williams - May 10, 2020 06:58 PM UTC | Black Holes

Scientists with the ESO have detected a triple system with a black hole roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth - making it the closest ever observed.

Space Force is Recruiting, Here's their New Video

By Matthew Williams - May 09, 2020 11:44 PM UTC | Space Policy

The United States Space Force just released a recruitment video. If you're looking for your purpose, and suspect it's off-world, this is the service for you!

A Cool Idea to Catch Up With an Interstellar Visitor

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2020 06:49 PM UTC | Space Exploration