Universe Today (Page 233)

New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days

By Matthew Williams - January 17, 2023 06:11 PM UTC | Missions

NASA's Advanced Innovation Concepts (NAIC) program selected a new type of bimodal nuclear propulsion that could allow for missions to Mars in 45 days!

A Black Hole is Savoring its Meal, Feeding on the Same Star Over and Over Again

By Evan Gough - January 17, 2023 05:08 PM UTC | Black Holes

Using the Shadows of Clusters to Measure the Universe

By Paul Sutter - January 17, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Cosmology

NASA's Psyche Mission is Back on. It'll Launch Towards its Metal Asteroid Target Later This Year

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 16, 2023 09:57 PM UTC | Missions

A Hybrid Fission/Fusion Reactor Could be the Best way to get Through the ice on Europa

By Matthew Williams - January 16, 2023 05:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal for a hybrid nuclear reactor could power missions to Europa, and was selected by NASA for Phase I development

How did Dimorphos Form?

By Paul Sutter - January 16, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Why Does the Butterfly Nebula Look Like This?

By Nancy Atkinson - January 16, 2023 11:29 AM UTC | Stars

Cosmic Noon was Billions of Years ago, When Many Galaxies Were Filled With Star-Forming Nebulae Like This

By sjohnston - January 15, 2023 11:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

Many of the World's Greatest Observatories Suffer from Some Light Pollution

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 15, 2023 08:22 PM UTC | Observing

How Crazy Magnetic Fields Drive the Sun Mad

By Paul Sutter - January 15, 2023 02:02 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Mars Rover's Dead, Comet Incoming, JWST's First Exoplanet

By kuingul-gmail - January 14, 2023 06:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA's Exoplanet Watch Wants Your Help Studying Planets Around Other Stars

By Matthew Williams - January 14, 2023 04:58 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!

Astronomers Spot an Orphaned Protostar

By Paul Sutter - January 14, 2023 02:02 PM UTC | Stars

How Life Reshapes the Habitable Zone

By Paul Sutter - January 13, 2023 08:22 PM UTC | Astrobiology

UFO Update Says Pentagon's Case Count Is Rising Rapidly

By Alan Boyle - January 13, 2023 07:00 PM UTC | Site News

NASA Satellites can Pinpoint the Exact Locations of Excessive CO2 Emissions

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2023 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Using data from two climate monitoring satellites, a group led by Canadian researchers tracked carbon emissions from a single coal plant in Europe.

One Day There Could be a Pipeline of Oxygen Flowing From the Moon's South Pole

By Evan Gough - January 13, 2023 04:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Used a Fast Radio Burst to Probe the Structure of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2023 04:08 PM UTC | Milky Way

Astronomers from Caltech used a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from another galaxy to probe the distribution of matter in the Milky Way.

TESS has Found A Second Earth-Sized World in This System. Exoplanet Science is Maturing

By Evan Gough - January 13, 2023 02:45 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA is Continuing to Build the Titan Dragonfly Helicopter. Here are its Rotors

By Andy Tomaswick - January 12, 2023 11:44 PM UTC | Missions