Universe Today
Building a Satellite out of Wood? Use Magnolia
Mars Has a Thick Crust. Its Internal Heat Mainly Comes from Radioactivity
Could We Resurrect the Spitzer Space Telescope?
Fatty Acids Might Exist in Space
A Few Interstellar Objects Have Probably Been Captured
Astronomers Find an Earth-Sized World That May Be Carpeted in Volcanoes
Saturn's Rings are Much Younger Than the Planet
Scientists know how quickly dust builds up and allows them to measure in Saturn's rings, and it points to a recent formation.
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Four of Uranus' Moons Might Have Liquid Oceans, Too
JWST Finds a Comet Still Holding Onto Water in the Main Asteroid Belt
Astronomers Prepare for the Next Thousand Years of Hazardous Asteroid Impacts
Life Probably Didn't Have a Hand in Creating Organic Deposits on the Surface of Mars
Using data from the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), new research shows that organic material on Mars may not be an indication of past life.
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Kathy Lueders Was NASA's Top Human Spaceflight Official. Now She Works for SpaceX
Astronomers Have a New Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
A new method of measuring cosmic expansion uses multiple observations of a supernova in a lensed galaxy.
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An Innovative Heat Shield That Doesn't Need to Be Replaced Between Missions
Astronomers Want Your Help to Identify Risky Asteroids
It's Time to Figure Out How to Land Large Spacecraft Safely on Other Worlds
Seismic Waves Help Map the Core of Mars for the First Time
The Moon has a Solid Core Like the Earth
A new study by a team of French researchers has confirmed that the Moon has a solid inner core.
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Astronomers Find a "Red Nova": A Main-Sequence Star Just Eating its Planet
Galactic Black Hole Winds Blow Up to a Third the Speed of Light. The Impact on Their Galaxies is Impressive.
A new study by the SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS (SUBWAYS) project explores the role of "space winds" in shaping galaxies.
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