Universe Today (Page 350)

Testing the Rover That'll Land on Phobos

By Andy Tomaswick - October 01, 2020 11:39 AM UTC | Missions

Astronomers think they've found an exoplanet in a galaxy 23 million light-years away

By Paul Sutter - October 01, 2020 10:51 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Cheops Finds a World That's Utterly Alien From Anything We Have in the Solar System

By Evan Gough - September 30, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A Galaxy has been Found That's as Bright as a Quasar... But it's Not a Quasar

By Nancy Atkinson - September 30, 2020 05:25 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Another Starship Test Tank is Pushed to the Limit and Explodes

By Matthew Williams - September 30, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX just passed another milestone with the SN7.1 test tank, which they tested to failure by pressurizing it until it exploded

Maybe Volcanoes Could Explain the Phosphine in Venus' Atmosphere

By Evan Gough - September 30, 2020 04:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Is There Life Deep Underground on Mars?

By Andy Tomaswick - September 30, 2020 02:53 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Astronomers Find a New Binary Object in the Kuiper Belt

By Evan Gough - September 29, 2020 08:39 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Just A Couple Of Weeks From Now, OSIRIS-REx Will Grab A Sample From Bennu

By Evan Gough - September 29, 2020 04:16 PM UTC | Missions

Climate Change is Making the Atmosphere Worse for Astronomy

By Evan Gough - September 29, 2020 01:10 PM UTC | Observing

We Might Have a New Mini-Moon Soon

By Nancy Atkinson - September 29, 2020 12:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New Radio Telescope Is Going to Fly to the Far Side of the Moon to Listen to the Signals From the Early Universe

By Andy Tomaswick - September 28, 2020 06:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

Ancient Terrain on Venus Looks Like it Was Formed Through Volcanism

By Matthew Williams - September 28, 2020 06:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study shows that some of the oldest surface features on Venus (tesserae) were likely formed by volcanic activity

The Newest Picture of Jupiter and Europa Captured by Hubble

By Evan Gough - September 28, 2020 03:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Video Shows a Meteoroid Skipping off Earth's Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - September 28, 2020 12:51 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA's New Budget for Artemis? $28 Billion

By Matthew Williams - September 28, 2020 12:03 AM UTC | Space Policy

Just in time for the upcoming elections, NASA has presented Congress with the projected budget for sending astronauts back to the Moon!

Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" X: What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?

By Matthew Williams - September 27, 2020 04:26 PM UTC | Astrobiology

In this latest instalment, we explore the possibility that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, and that intelligent species will become more common with time.

Time Travel, Without the Pesky Paradoxes

By Brian Koberlein - September 27, 2020 02:59 PM UTC | Physics

So you've built a time machine. What prevents you from creating a paradox that dooms us all?

Gaia has Already Given Us 5 New Insights Into the Milky Way

By Evan Gough - September 26, 2020 02:54 PM UTC | Milky Way

NASA Releases a New Poster for the Europa Clipper Mission

By Matthew Williams - September 25, 2020 08:30 PM UTC | Missions

In anticipation of this upcoming mission, NASA has released a stunning poster for the Europa Clipper mission!