Universe Today (Page 226)

The Planet That Shouldn't Exist

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - February 26, 2023 10:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field

By Brian Koberlein - February 26, 2023 09:53 AM UTC | Cosmology

The cosmic web is filled with magnetic fields, and we are starting to observe them at last.

Not Just Water. Enceladus is Also Blasting Silica Into Space

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 25, 2023 08:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 25, 2023 05:44 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it

By Matthew Williams - February 25, 2023 04:43 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.

59 New Planets Discovered in Our Neighborhood

By Matthew Williams - February 25, 2023 01:23 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The CARMENESE Consortium just released the first collection of data, which revealed 59 new exoplanets and doubled the number of known planets around Red Dwarf suns.

Europa Could be Covered in Salty Ice

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - February 25, 2023 11:15 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Recreating the Extreme Forces of an Asteroid Impact in the Lab

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 24, 2023 08:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

It Should be Possible to Farm on the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - February 24, 2023 09:24 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 23, 2023 04:45 PM UTC | Black Holes

How are Mars Rocks Getting "Shocked" by Meteorite Impacts?

By Matthew Williams - February 23, 2023 04:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was young.

"The Universe Breakers": Six Galaxies That are Too Big, Too Early

By Nancy Atkinson - February 23, 2023 12:04 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Clouds of Carbon Dust Seen When the Universe was Less Than a Billion Years Old

By Matthew Williams - February 22, 2023 07:30 PM UTC | Cosmology

A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic evolution.