Universe Today (Page 313)

A Planet Lost Its Atmosphere, So Its Volcanoes Made It a New One

By rcrewe - March 12, 2021 07:00 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Giant Magellan Telescope's 6th Mirror has Just Been Cast. One More to Go

By Matthew Williams - March 12, 2021 05:37 PM UTC | Telescopes

Work has begun on the sixth and seventh mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will begin studying the cosmos by the late 2020s.

China and Russia Will Be Partners in a Lunar Research Station

By sjohnston - March 12, 2021 02:33 PM UTC | Space Policy

Alcubierre Gives us an Update on his Ideas About Warp Drives

By Brian Koberlein - March 12, 2021 11:59 AM UTC | Physics

A new look at warp drive fuels hope that it might be possible after all.

Measuring the Temperatures of Red Giants is Actually Pretty Tricky

By Paul Sutter - March 12, 2021 10:21 AM UTC | Stars

Comets Already Grow a Coma out in the Kuiper Belt

By Paul Sutter - March 12, 2021 04:15 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The Oldest Stars Help Tell us how big the Universe is

By Paul Sutter - March 11, 2021 04:30 PM UTC | Cosmology

Microbes Found That Survive on the by-Products of Radioactive Decay

By Matthew Williams - March 11, 2021 02:54 PM UTC | Astrobiology

An oceanic research team recently demonstrated that one of the largest ecosystem on Earth thrives on the radioactive decay of elements

Organic Material Found on an Asteroid Sample Returned by Hayabusa 1

By Andy Tomaswick - March 11, 2021 02:21 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Vega Might Have a Planet

By Andy Tomaswick - March 11, 2021 01:26 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Galápagos Islands From Space

By Nancy Atkinson - March 11, 2021 10:51 AM UTC | Planetary Science

What's the Connection Between Stellar-Mass Black Holes and Dark Matter?

By Brian Koberlein - March 11, 2021 09:52 AM UTC | Black Holes

The smallest black hole we've observed might prove dark matter is made of primordial black holes.

Researchers Discover the Source of the Sun's Most Dangerous High-Energy Particles

By Paul Sutter - March 11, 2021 08:48 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Fantastic Analysis of SN-10 Landing and Explosion by Scott Manley

By Matthew Williams - March 10, 2021 06:03 PM UTC | Stars

A new video by astrophysicist and Youtuber Scott Manley breaks down what went wrong with SpaceX's latest test flight

Did Supermassive Black Holes Form Directly From Dark Matter?

By Paul Sutter - March 10, 2021 05:00 PM UTC | Black Holes

Move Over, Electron: Rocket Lab Introduces Its New Neutron Rocket

By David Dickinson - March 10, 2021 12:42 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Peter Beck announces an addition to the Rocket Lab family, with the Neutron Rocket.

This Exoplanetary System Breaks all the Rules

By Paul Sutter - March 10, 2021 08:16 AM UTC | Exoplanets

How do you get Power into Your Lunar Base? With a Tower of Concrete Several Kilometers High

By sjohnston - March 09, 2021 08:30 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Apollo Rocks Reveal the Moon's Early History

By Matthew Williams - March 09, 2021 04:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new analysis of lunar rock samples has revealed details about its early history, particularly how the Moon's iron core differentiated from its mantle.

VY Canis Majoris is "Like Betelgeuse on Steroids"

By Andy Tomaswick - March 09, 2021 02:27 PM UTC | Stars