Universe Today
Is the Habitable Worlds Observatory a Good Idea?
Spring-loaded Robot Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Almost Indefinitely
Stunning 80 Megapixel Image of a Stellar Nursery
Many Stars Could Have Sent Us 'Oumuamua
Construction of Roman Continues With the Addition of its Sunshade
A Flaming Flower in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A Bola Robot Could Provide Stable Jumping Capability on Low-Gravity Bodies
White Dwarfs Could Be More Habitable Than We Thought
Dramatically Decreasing the Time it Takes to Measure Asteroid Distances
Should Astronauts Add Jumping to their Workout Routine?
Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe? Here's How to Find Out
A Hyper Velocity Star Found with an Exoplanet Hanging on for Dear Life
Efforts to Detect Alien Life Advanced by Simple Microbe Mobility Test
Curiosity's Other Important Job: Studying Martian Clouds
A Balloon With a Tether Could Explore Venus' Surface
Hydrogels Could Be Ideal Radiation Protection For Astronauts
To Probe the Interior of Neutron Stars, We Must Study the Gravitational Waves from their Collisions
The JWST Gives Us Our Best Image of Planets Forming Around a Star
Tiny Solar Jets Drive the Sun's Fast and Slow Solar Wind
A Blown-Glass Structure Could House Astronauts on the Moon
A Lunar Map for the Best Places to Get Samples
Temperamental Stars are Messing With Our Exoplanet Efforts
A New Study Reveals How Dark Matter Dominated the Early Universe
A Jumping Robot Could Leap Over Enceladus' Geysers
JWST Finds the Smallest Asteroids Ever Seen in the Main Belt
Material from Alpha Centauri is Already Here
NASA CubeSat Discovers New Radiation Belts After Intense Solar Storm
Alien Oceans May Conceal Signs of Life from Spacecraft
NASA Gets a Firm Grip on the Future of Space Exploration
Yes, the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth Have Doubled. No, You Don't Need to Worry
The odds of 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have doubled to 2.3%, but that's not surprising given that it's still early days.
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Europa Clipper Tests its Star Tracker Navigation System
The Moon has Two Grand Canyons, Carved in Minutes by an Asteroid Impact
Is Methane the Key to Finding Life on Other Worlds?
Space Junk Could Re-Enter the Atmosphere in Busy Flight Areas
There's a Way to Make Ringworlds and Dyson Spheres Stable
Water Arrived in the Final Stages of Earth's Formation
An Amazing JWST Image of a Protostar
There Could Be a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hurling Stars at the Milky Way
Uranus' Moon Ariel has Deep Gashes, Could Reveal its Interior
A Recent Impact on Mars Shook the Planet to Its Mantle
This Hot Jupiter Probably Formed Close to Its Star
Astronomers Find the Largest Structure in the Universe and Name it "Quipu"
Hybrid Gas/Drill Asteroid Sampler Could Improve Collection Amounts
Bullseye! Hubble Spots Ripples in Space From a Galaxy Collision
Gaia Was Right. It Did Find a Planet.
Our Best Look at the Cosmic Web
How Far Away Could We Detect... Ourselves?
Burrowing Mole-Bot Could Characterize Other Planet's Soil
Even Microquasars are Powerful Particle Accelerators
Quasars are the actively feeding supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies and can contain millions or even billions of times the mass of the Sun. It's believed they're the source of some of the highest energy cosmic rays detected. But there are also microquasars, where a star and black hole orbit one another. Material from the star accretes around the black hole, and the magnetic fields form jets that can also hurl cosmic rays with similar energies.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a Powerful Science Instrument Despite its Age
