Universe Today (Page 335)

InSight's 'Mole' is Now Completely buried!

By Evan Gough - October 16, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Operating a Rover in Real-time From a Distance

By Andy Tomaswick - October 16, 2020 03:44 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Pluto has Snowcapped Mountains, But Why?

By Evan Gough - October 16, 2020 03:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Summer is Dust Devil Time on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - October 16, 2020 12:26 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Elon Musk Shares a View of Starship With Three Raptor Engines Installed

By Matthew Williams - October 15, 2020 09:13 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The SN8 Starship prototype just got its three Raptor engines, and is now preparing to test fire them. After that, it's smooth sailing towards the 15 km (50,000 ft) hop test!

Weekly Space Hangout: October 14, 2020, Drs. Jane Huang & Jonathan Williams, Protoplanetary Disks

By nancygraz - October 15, 2020 05:17 PM UTC | Stars

This week we are joined by Dr. Jane Huang and Dr. Jonathan Willams from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Dr. Huang, Dr. Williams, and their team recently discovered some surprising information about the size and shape of some protoplanetary disks.

Astronomers Report They've Detected the Amino Acid Glycine in the Atmosphere of Venus

By Evan Gough - October 15, 2020 03:53 PM UTC | Astrobiology

China's Mars-bound Tianwen-1 Takes a Selfie

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2020 06:19 PM UTC | Missions

Starman Just Made his Closest Approach to Mars

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2020 06:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

In a interesting bit of SpaceX news, Starman and his cherry Tesla Roadster made their first flyby of Mars, and will be passing by Earth in less than a month!

This Martian Lava Tube Skylight is 50 Meters Across. The Biggest Lava Tube on Earth is Only 15 Meters Across

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2020 04:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Most Comprehensive 3D Map of Galaxies Has Been Released

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2020 03:20 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Using the largest survey ever conducted, a team of astronomers from the IfA have created the largest 3D catalog of the Universe ever!

BepiColombo Mercury Mission to Make First Venus Flyby Tonight

By David Dickinson - October 14, 2020 03:11 PM UTC | Missions

The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft will observe Venus during tonight's pass, on the hunt for phosphine and sulfur-dioxide.

We're Made of Starstuff. Especially From Extremely Massive Stars

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2020 01:05 PM UTC | Stars

Do Ripples on the Surface of the Sun tell us that a Flare is Coming?

By Paul Sutter - October 13, 2020 05:26 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

This is a Landslide... on the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2020 05:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Watch a Star Get Spaghettified by a Black Hole

By Brian Koberlein - October 13, 2020 04:17 PM UTC | Black Holes

When a black hole consumes a star, it does so by turning it into spaghetti first. Astronomers have seen it happen.

An Exoplanet So Hot There Are 7 Different Kinds of Gaseous Metals in its Atmosphere

By Evan Gough - October 13, 2020 03:22 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Comet P1 NEOWISE Makes a Brief Late October Appearance

By David Dickinson - October 13, 2020 01:17 PM UTC | Observing

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) caught another intriguing object on August 2, 2020 as part of its extended sky survey mission, as Comet C/2020 P1 NEOWISE is set to become a fine binocular object in late October and early November.

How to See What's on the Other Side of a Wormhole Without Actually Traveling Through it

By Paul Sutter - October 12, 2020 04:50 PM UTC | Physics

Black Holes Make Complex Gravitational-Wave Chirps as They Merge

By Brian Koberlein - October 12, 2020 01:17 PM UTC | Black Holes

When black holes collide, they emit chirps of gravitational waves even after they have merged.