Universe Today (Page 289)

Canada's Criminal Laws now Extend to Earth Orbit and the Moon

By Matthew Williams - May 09, 2022 02:55 PM UTC | Space Policy

In anticipation of Artemis, the Canadian government just passed an amendment to extend its Criminal Code to the Moon!

Extended Trips to Space Alter the Brains of Astronauts

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 09, 2022 01:35 PM UTC | Space Exploration

We can Probably Find Supernovae Enhanced by Gravitational Lensing, We Just Need to Look

By Paul Sutter - May 09, 2022 10:02 AM UTC | Stars

Even Stars Doomed to Die as Supernovae can Have Planets

By sjohnston - May 08, 2022 08:32 PM UTC | Exoplanets

This Crater on Mars is Just a Couple of Years Old

By Nancy Atkinson - May 08, 2022 01:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field

By Brian Koberlein - May 08, 2022 11:01 AM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers may have seen the magnetic field of a black hole undergo a magnetic reversal.

Volcanoes May Have Killed Venus with a Runaway Greenhouse, and Almost the Earth Too

By Paul Sutter - May 08, 2022 10:01 AM UTC | Planetary Science

This is a Dust Avalanche on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - May 07, 2022 11:09 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Traveling the Solar System with Pulsar Navigation

By Allen Versfeld - May 07, 2022 10:22 AM UTC | Space Exploration

What Does Micrometeoroid Damage do to Gossamer Structures Like Webb's Sunshield?

By Paul Sutter - May 07, 2022 09:59 AM UTC | Telescopes

A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 07, 2022 08:00 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 06, 2022 10:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

InSight Senses its two Biggest Marsquakes so far, Coming From the Opposite Side of the Planet

By Matthew Williams - May 06, 2022 01:40 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected the two most powerful "marsquakes" to date, which are already revealing things about Mars' geology.

Why Believing in the Multiverse Isn't Madness

By Alan Boyle - May 06, 2022 11:42 AM UTC | Cosmology

Scientists Create Molecules that can Follow Darwinian Evolution

By Paul Sutter - May 06, 2022 09:56 AM UTC | Astrobiology

A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest "Black Widow" Binary Ever Seen

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 05, 2022 10:56 PM UTC | Stars

Neptune's Temperature is Behaving Strangely

By Andy Tomaswick - May 05, 2022 07:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Younger the Planet, the More Likely it is to be Habitable

By Evan Gough - May 05, 2022 06:03 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A Magnetic Bubble Could Protect Astronauts From Dangerous Space Radiation

By Nancy Atkinson - May 05, 2022 03:03 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA is Looking for Ideas on How to Simulate Missions to Mars!

By Matthew Williams - May 05, 2022 12:05 PM UTC | Missions

NASA and HeroX have launched the NASA MarsXR Challenge, which will award up to $70,000 in prizes for innovative ideas on how to simulate future Mars missions.