Universe Today
Last Year's Total Solar Eclipse on Earth, Seen From the Moon
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Calculate the Number of Alien Civilizations in the Milky Way for Yourself.
A new online tool created by a team of physicists allows users to calculate how many alien civilization could be out there for themselves!
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Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars
New Hubble Photos of Planetary Nebulae
Astronomers Just Detected Either the Least Massive Black Hole, or a Strange and Massive Neutron Star
Somewhere around 2.5 solar masses is the line between black holes and neutron stars. Now we've found an object right on the edge.
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Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Started Out With Water Oceans, and Have Been Slowly Freezing Solid for Billions of Years
Another Starship Test Ends in an Explosion (Intentionally This Time)
At their Boca Chica test facility, SpaceX tested another Starship prototype (SN7) to the point of failure, which resulted in another explosive release of cryogenic liquid nitrogen.
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There's no evidence that dark matter interacts with any other force but gravity
Planets Form in Just a Few Hundred Thousand Years
A Repeating Fast Radio Burst Has Been Found. It Flares for 4 Days and then Remains Silent for 12 Days
Five hundred million light-years from Earth, there is a deeply unusual object. It is radio silent for 12 days, then erupts in bright radio bursts. We still aren't sure what the object is.
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Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July
Comet U6 Lemmon promises to be a fine binocular object at dusk.
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If You Could See in X-rays, This is What the Universe Would Look Like
Antares is a supergiant star that would fill the Solar System beyond Mars, but its atmosphere is 12 times bigger than that
A New Search for Evidence of Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and University of Rochester have come together (with NASA funding) to launch a new search for advanced alien life!
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Quasars are the Biggest Particle Accelerators in the Universe
There are Features on Titan That Really Look Like Volcanic Craters
A new study supported by the Cassini mission shows how the northern polar region of Titan could still be experiencing volcanic activity.
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Planets With Large Oceans are Probably Common in the Milky Way
A new study by a team of NASA scientists indicates that "ocean worlds," like those in our Solar System, could be very common in our Universe.
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Astronomers Estimate There Are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way
NASA Thinks it's Time to Return to Neptune With its Trident Mission
