Universe Today (Page 363)

This Weekend's Challenging Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Rounds Out the Summer Season

By David Dickinson - July 02, 2020 10:02 AM UTC | Observing

The July 4th Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Ends a Rare Triple Eclipse Season

Complete and Total Mayhem in a Distant Galaxy Collision

By Evan Gough - July 01, 2020 06:36 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Here's How Perseverance's Helicopter Sidekick Will Deploy on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - July 01, 2020 12:08 AM UTC | Planetary Science

It might just be possible to see a light flash too when black holes merge

By Paul Sutter - June 30, 2020 09:50 PM UTC | Black Holes

Rovers Will be Starting to Make Their Own Decisions About Where to Search for Life

By Evan Gough - June 30, 2020 05:40 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Comet F3 NEOWISE May Perform in July

By David Dickinson - June 30, 2020 02:32 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Watch for comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE at dusk in late July... if it survives perihelion.

A brand new magnetar found, it's only 240 years old

By Paul Sutter - June 29, 2020 09:21 PM UTC | Stars

Do Hot Jupiters Form Close in, or Do They Migrate? A Newly-Discovered Planet Might Help Answer This

By Matthew Williams - June 29, 2020 07:42 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The recent discovery of a very young gas giant could offer clues about how "Hot Jupiters" form and whether or not they migrate over time.

Deep Down in Ocean Worlds, it's Difficult to Tell Where the Oceans End and the Rock Begins

By Evan Gough - June 29, 2020 07:26 PM UTC | Planetary Science

More Evidence that Europa's Oceans Could be Habitable

By Evan Gough - June 29, 2020 05:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Astronaut Drops a Mirror During a Spacewalk. Now There's Another Piece of Space Junk

By Nancy Atkinson - June 29, 2020 03:40 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The Bare Minimum Number of Martian Settlers? 110

By Evan Gough - June 29, 2020 12:44 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Canada is Going to be Building Canadarm3 for the Artemis Missions

By Nancy Atkinson - June 29, 2020 12:31 PM UTC | Missions

A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan

By Matthew Williams - June 27, 2020 05:22 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in the Solar System, from Venus to Uranus.

Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars

By Matthew Williams - June 26, 2020 10:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

As the only Mars analog environment in the Southern hemisphere, Habitat Marte is conducting research that will allow humans to live on Mars someday

Do We Now Understand Why the Moon's Near and Far Sides Look So Dramatically Different?

By Evan Gough - June 26, 2020 06:03 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Weekly Space Hangout: June 24, 2020 — Elizabeth Howell & Nicholas Booth, The Search for Life on Mars

By Nancy Graziano - June 26, 2020 03:34 PM UTC | Astrobiology

NASA Changes its Mind. It Will be Using Previously Flown Crew Dragons and Falcon 9

By Matthew Williams - June 26, 2020 03:15 PM UTC | Missions

NASA has announced that starting next year, SpaceX will be able to reuse its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 boosters to send astronauts to the ISS.

Another Collection of Newly Forming Planetary Systems. This Time from the Gemini Planet Imager

By Evan Gough - June 26, 2020 01:46 PM UTC | Exoplanets

How an Advanced Civilization Could Exploit a Black Hole for Nearly Limitless Energy

By Evan Gough - June 25, 2020 04:49 PM UTC | Black Holes