Universe Today
A New Industrial Megaproject Threatens the View of the World's Best Observatories
The Cosmos is Waiting for us to Explore. But we Should Choose our Path Wisely.
The Moon Occults Mars for North America Monday Night, Just Before Opposition 2025
Roman's Telescope and Instruments are Joined
SLS Could Launch A Titan Balloon Mission
How to Deploy and Talk To LEAVES on Venus
NASA is Keeping an Eye on InSight from Space
Planets Without Plate Tectonics Could Still Be Habitable
Astronomers are Losing the Night Sky (and Radio Sky) to Satellite Megaconstellations
At the end of 2023, there were more than 5,000 satellites orbiting Earth, with 10s of 1000s more on the way. Although individual satellites might be invisible to the unaided eye, their collective light might already be causing a 10% brightness increase in the night sky. Large surveys like Vera Rubin will see frequent satellite trails obscuring important data. And the radio pollution is also increasing with communications satellites. What can be done to restore the sky?
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We Could Search for Aliens Harvesting Energy from their Pet Black Hole
Here's How Pluto and Charon Became a Bizarre Double Planet
The Lunar Surface Remelted, Obscuring an Easy Answer to its True Age
NASA Lays Out Two New Options for Mars Sample Return
A CubeSat Mission Will Detect X-rays from GRBs and Black-Hole Mergers
Venus is Important. We Should Take its Exploration Seriously.
You're Made of Carbon that Took a Journey into Intergalactic Space
This Superbacteria can Withstand Enough Radiation to Kill a Person
Will Comet G3 ATLAS Perform at Perihelion?
A Dragon Reveals Individual Stars From A Time When the Universe Was Half Its Present Age
It's nearly impossible to identify individual stars billions of light years away. But thanks to gravitational lensing, astronomers have identified red giant stars in a distant galaxy.
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Pushing A Probe To Alpha Centauri Using A Relativistic Electron Beam
If We Want to Live on Other Worlds, We're Going to Need New Clocks
There Were Over 260 Orbital Launches in 2024. A New Record
New Study Explains How Mars Dust Storms Can Engulf the Planet
Student Team Designs 2U CubeSat with Big Ambitions
This Fast Radio Burst Definitely Came From a Neutron Star
Since the first fast radio burst (FRB) was discovered in 2007, astronomers have been puzzling over their source. These bright radio flashes come from seemingly random directions across the universe. Finally, astronomers have pinned down one FRB to a specific neutron star in a galaxy about 200 light-years away. The FRB was unleashed from a region within 10,000 km of the neutron star and probably emerged from its magnetosphere.
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NASA Scientists Discover "Dark Comets" Come in Two Populations.
Could There Be Bacteria Living on Mars Today?
Could Habitable White Dwarf Planets Retain Their Oceans? Maybe.
Some white dwarfs have planets, but to be habitable worlds they would need to hold on to their oceans during the star's red giant stage.
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Is There a Fundamental Logic to Life?
Using an Oil Industry Framework to Map Space Resources
The Webb Captures Spectra of Trans-Neptunian Objects, and Reveals a History of Our Solar System
Trans-Neptunian Objects are the icy remnants of our early solar system. Part of their history can be found in the spectra of molecules and dust on their frozen surfaces.
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This Particle Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction
Crisscrossing Dust Devil Tracks Across the Surface of Mars
A Long-Term Lunar Infrastructure Hub Named After the Object That Created the Moon
New Study of Supernovae Data Suggests That Dark Energy is an Illusion
Dark energy is central to the standard model of cosmology, but the Timescape model suggests dark matter doesn't exist.
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New Glenn Completes a Hotfire Test. Next... Flight?
A Young Exoplanet's Atmosphere Doesn't Match its Birthplace
The Quadrantid Meteors and More Ring in 2025
A New Mission Watches Meteoroids Hit the Far Side of the Moon
Even Stars Can Get the Hiccups
Hotter White Dwarfs Get Puffier
NASA to Probe the Secrets of the Lunar Regolith
NOIRLab Launches Collection of Hi-Res Images of 88 IAU-recognized Constellations
Saturn's Rings Might Be Really Old After All
Covering an Asteroid With Balls Could Characterize Its Interior
New Image Revealed by NASA of their New Martian Helicopter.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Makes its Record-Breaking Closest Approach to the Sun
Meteor Showers May One Day Help Protect Humanity!
NASA is Considering Designs and Simulations to Prepare Astronauts for Lighting Conditions Around the Lunar South Pole
Neutron Stars With Less Mass Than A White Dwarf Might Exist, and LIGO and Virgo Could Find Them
Theoretically a neutron star could have less mass than a white dwarf. If these light neutron stars exist, we might detect them through the gravitational waves they emit during a cataclysmic merger with another star.
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