Universe Today (Page 318)

Blue Origin Will Finally Fly Passengers to the Edge of Space in July

By Matthew Williams - May 11, 2021 07:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Blue Origin has a charitable auction going and whoever makes the highest bid will win a ride to space the New Shepard rocket!

Starlink and OneWeb Have Their First Avoidance Maneuver With Each Other's Constellations

By Paul Sutter - May 11, 2021 09:50 AM UTC | Space Policy

How can White Dwarfs Produce Such Powerful Magnetic Fields?

By Paul Sutter - May 11, 2021 09:11 AM UTC | Stars

Ingenuity Makes a one-way Trip for the First Time, Flying to a new Landing Site

By Andy Tomaswick - May 11, 2021 08:56 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA is Getting Serious About a Radio Telescope on the Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - May 11, 2021 06:41 AM UTC | Missions

Both Uranus and Neptune Have Really Bizarre Magnetic Fields

By Paul Sutter - May 10, 2021 09:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Young Stars can Evaporate Nearby Disks Before They can Form Planets

By Paul Sutter - May 10, 2021 09:10 AM UTC | Exoplanets

A new Method Simulates the Universe 1000 Times Faster

By Andy Tomaswick - May 10, 2021 08:53 AM UTC | Cosmology

It's Official, Astronaut Bill Nelson is NASA's new Administrator

By Matthew Williams - May 09, 2021 03:41 AM UTC | Space Policy

Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, Senator, and longtime advocate for space, was recently sworn in as the 14th Administrator of NASA

Volcanoes on Mars Might Still be Active

By sjohnston - May 08, 2021 02:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars Helicopter Completes its 4th Flight. 117 Seconds of Airtime

By Matthew Williams - May 07, 2021 09:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter just completed its fourth flight, once again setting records for extraterrestrial flight.

We Could Detect Extraterrestrial Satellite Megaconstellations Within a few Hundred Light-Years

By Brian Koberlein - May 07, 2021 12:28 PM UTC | Astrobiology

If an alien civilization has a Starlink-like constellation of satellites, we might be able to find them.

What we've Learned About Venus From the Parker Solar Probe

By Andy Tomaswick - May 07, 2021 08:07 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

One Full Year of Seismic Data Collected by Mars Insight Includes 500 Quakes

By Andy Tomaswick - May 07, 2021 07:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

SpaceX's SN15 Starship Prototype Nails It!

By Matthew Williams - May 05, 2021 08:46 PM UTC | Space Exploration

On the fifth attempt, SpaceX nailed the high-altitude flight test with a Starship prototype! Onward and upward we go!

Dark Matter Could Change the Temperature of Exoplanets, Allowing us to Detect it

By Brian Koberlein - May 05, 2021 09:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets

If dark matter exists, it could make Jupiter-like exoplanets warmer than we expect.

"Ain't like Dusting Crops!" How We'll Actually Navigate Interstellar Space

By Matthew Cimone - May 04, 2021 05:39 PM UTC | Space Exploration

How Long is a Day on Venus? We Finally Know the Exact Answer

By Matthew Williams - May 04, 2021 02:41 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Using the radio-echo timing technique, a team of researchers have precisely measured the length of a day on Venus

Dune Fields in Gale Crater Tell the Story of Mars' Shifting Climate Over Eons

By Andy Tomaswick - May 04, 2021 08:03 AM UTC | Planetary Science

New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way's Galactic Halo

By Andy Tomaswick - May 04, 2021 06:44 AM UTC | Milky Way