Universe Today (Page 146)

Astronomers Might Have Imaged a Second Planet Around Nearby Proxima Centauri - and it Might Have a Huge Set of Rings

By Matthew Williams - April 18, 2020 07:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct image of Proxima c (which could have a system of rings)

Betelgeuse Is Bright Again

By Brian Koberlein - April 18, 2020 03:04 PM UTC | Stars

Anak Krakatau Erupted a Few Days Ago. Here's What it Looked Like From Space

By Evan Gough - April 17, 2020 04:09 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Why was there more matter than antimatter in the Universe? Neutrinos might give us the answer

By Brian Koberlein - April 17, 2020 03:29 PM UTC | Cosmology

Gravity is tested down to a scale smaller than the thickness of a human hair

By Paul Sutter - April 17, 2020 02:49 PM UTC | Physics

Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: The Nail-biting Re-entry Sequence

By Nancy Atkinson - April 17, 2020 01:34 PM UTC | Missions

An Earth-Sized World Orbiting in its Star's Habitable Zone Was Found in Older Kepler Data

By Matthew Williams - April 17, 2020 01:22 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Searching through archival Kepler data has revealed another exoplanet around Kepler-1649, the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered to date

Astronomers Finally Think They Understand Where Interstellar Object Oumuamua Came From and How it Formed

By Evan Gough - April 16, 2020 05:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Light Behaves Really Strangely Around a Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - April 16, 2020 04:31 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by its powerful gravity.

Astronomers Measure the Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf for the First Time. Spoiler: Insanely Fast

By Evan Gough - April 15, 2020 05:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: Charging the Batteries

By Nancy Atkinson - April 15, 2020 04:42 PM UTC | Missions

Venice From Space Looks Very Different This Year

By Evan Gough - April 15, 2020 03:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Comet Y4 ATLAS Breaks Up...Enter Comet F8 SWAN

By David Dickinson - April 15, 2020 09:59 AM UTC | Planetary Science

When it comes to comets, the only thing that is certain is the orbit. Though the cosmos has yet to send us a really bright comet for 2020 to keep us occupied during the ongoing worldwide pandemic and lock down, it has sent us a steady stream of descent binocular comets, including C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS, C/2019 Y1 ATLAS, and C/2019 Y4 ATLAS. And though Y4 ATLAS won't be match the "Comet of the Century" hype, another interesting binocular comet has just made its presence known over the past weekend: C/2020 F8 SWAN.

Thanks to COVID-19, nothing's moving, and seismologists can tell

By Paul Sutter - April 14, 2020 09:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science

During Mass Extinction Events, Volcanoes Were Releasing About the Same Amount of CO2 as We Are Today

By Evan Gough - April 14, 2020 06:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Weekly Space Hangout: April 15, 2020 - Rise of the Space Age Millennials with Laura Forczyk

By susie - April 14, 2020 02:33 PM UTC | Space Policy

Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 1: The Barbecue Roll

By Nancy Atkinson - April 13, 2020 06:42 PM UTC | Space Exploration

When Comets Break Up, the Fragments Can Be Devastating If They Hit the Earth

By Evan Gough - April 13, 2020 03:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Carnival of Space #658-659

By susie - April 13, 2020 02:06 PM UTC | Site News

This is How the ESA and NASA Will be Working Together to Bring Rocks Back From Mars

By Matthew Williams - April 12, 2020 06:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The ESA has entered into a lucrative collaboration to help NASA get its Martian rock samples back to Earth.

Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids

By Matthew Williams - April 11, 2020 08:31 PM UTC | Space Policy

The Trump administration just signed an executive order that has given the green light to asteroid and lunar mining and other commercial ventures in space.

NASA's Plans For a Lunar Base Camp

By Matthew Williams - April 09, 2020 05:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

In a recent report submitted to the National Space Council, NASA has detailed its plans for building a lunar base camp on the Moon that will allow for long-term stays there.

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Appears to Have Broken in Half

By Evan Gough - April 09, 2020 04:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science

How Did the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Get Their Water?

By Matthew Williams - April 09, 2020 03:36 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A new study by an international team of astronomers raises questions about the existence of debris belts around red dwarf stars and how water could have been distributed within them.

New observations show that the Universe might not be expanding at the same rate in all directions

By Brian Koberlein - April 09, 2020 02:20 PM UTC | Cosmology

Seriously, Life Really Does Get Around. It was Found in Rocks Deep Beneath the Seafloor

By Evan Gough - April 08, 2020 04:18 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Study Finds Bizarre Exoplanet Orbits for Binary Stars

By David Dickinson - April 08, 2020 10:40 AM UTC | Exoplanets

There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now, a new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such far-flung exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, far out of the primary orbital plane.

WFIRST Will Use Relativity to Find More Exoplanets!

By Matthew Williams - April 07, 2020 07:28 PM UTC | Exoplanets

When it deploys in 2025, NASA's WFIRST mission will rely on the gravitational microlensing technique to locate exoplanets near the center of our galaxy.

Astronomers Watched a Star System Die

By Evan Gough - April 07, 2020 04:21 PM UTC | Stars

How the World's Biggest Radio Telescope Could be Used to Search for Aliens

By Matthew Williams - April 07, 2020 02:15 PM UTC | Astrobiology

In the coming years, China's FAST radio telescope could join in the hunt for extraterrestrials thanks to a partnership with Breakthrough Listen.

Decaying Dark Matter Should be Visible Here in the Milky Way as a Halo Around the Galaxy

By Paul Sutter - April 07, 2020 01:16 PM UTC | Milky Way

Weekly Space Hangout: April 8, 2020 - Colonel Mike Mullane, Astronaut

By susie - April 07, 2020 12:39 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX Will be Flying Cargo to the Moon

By Matthew Williams - April 06, 2020 06:04 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX was recently awarded a contract through NASA's Gateway Logistics Services program to provide services to the Lunar Gateway

Astronomers are hoping to see the very first stars and galaxies in the Universe

By Paul Sutter - April 04, 2020 08:37 AM UTC | Cosmology

SpaceX's Third Starship Prototype Collapsed Last Night

By Matthew Williams - April 03, 2020 07:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX suffered another setback with its development of the Starship last night when a third prototype (SN3) suffered a structural failure during testing and collapsed.

Because of Coronavirus Lockdowns, Europe is Having the Same Drop in Pollution that we Saw in China

By Evan Gough - April 03, 2020 05:46 PM UTC | Site News

Want to Buy Flights on Starship? Here's the New SpaceX Payload User's Guide, no Prices, Unfortunately

By Matthew Williams - April 03, 2020 04:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Carnival of Space #657

By susie - April 03, 2020 03:18 PM UTC | Site News

Stratolaunch Shows Off its New Hypersonic Testing Vehicle

By Nancy Atkinson - April 03, 2020 12:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

New Find Shows Uranus Loses Atmosphere to its Magnetic Field

By David Dickinson - April 03, 2020 10:00 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA's researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center recently did just that, looking at Voyager 2's lone encounter with the planet Uranus to uncover an amazing find, as the planet seems to be losing its atmosphere to it's lop-sided magnetic field at a high rate.