Universe Today
It Rained So Hard on Ancient Mars that Craters Filled Up and Overflowed
There's No Chemical Difference Between Stars With or Without Planets
We Have the Technology to Retrieve a Sample From an Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua
A white paper submitted to the 2023 - 2032 Decadal Survey recommends we create spacecraft that could rendezvous and take samples from interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua
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Everyone Took Pictures of Comet NEOWISE, Including Hubble
Scientists Recreate the Density of a White Dwarf in the Lab
Inside a white dwarf, atoms are squeezed almost to the point of collape. Now we've created this matter in a lab.
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Completely Harmless Asteroid Almost Certainly Won't Hit Earth Just Before the US Election
Did Jupiter Push Venus Into a Runaway Greenhouse?
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?
In our latest installment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven't heard from aliens is because they've been wiped out by killer robots!
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Lunar Landings Will Make it Harder to Study the Moon's Ice Deposits
A new study led by researchers from the JHUAPL indicates that future missions to the Moon could contaminate the lunar environment with their exhaust.
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Could There Be Life in the Cloudtops of Venus?
NASA's New Video Shows You What it's Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light
NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!
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First Laser Space Debris Detection Made... in Daylight
A new technique may prove to be a powerful tool in the battle to mitigate space debris.
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The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost binary companion.
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Could a tabletop experiment detect gravitational waves and determine the quantum nature of gravity?
A tabletop gravitational wave detector could take decades to build, but it could answer the most fundamental questions in physics.
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This Distorted Circle is Actually a Galaxy That Looked Very Similar to the Milky Way, Shortly After the Big Bang
Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago and were surprised to see that it looks a lot like how the Milky Way appears today.
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Remembering Don Arabian, the 'Mad Genius' Behind NASA's Apollo Engineering Team
Machine Learning Just Classified Over Half a Million Galaxies
Some Astronomers Think Betelgeuse Dimmed Because it "Sneezed". And it Might be Getting Ready to do it Again
An international team of researchers has proposed a new explanation for why Betelgeuse has been mysteriously dimming, just as it started dimming again!
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The Last Supernovae
The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos.
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What's Possible When Earth and Space-based Telescopes Work Together?
