Universe Today (Page 376)

Pulsars Confirm One of Einstein's Best Ideas, That Freefall Really Feels Like You're Experiencing a Lack of Gravity

By Matthew Williams - June 16, 2020 08:14 PM UTC | Physics

A team of European researchers observed a pulsar with two orbiting white dwarfs to confirm Einstein's "most fortunate thought."

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 2608, Surrounded by Many Many Other Galaxies

By Evan Gough - June 16, 2020 07:14 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Newborn Exoplanets can be Completely Stripped of Their Atmosphere by Stars

By Evan Gough - June 16, 2020 06:33 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Spacecraft was able to measure how long neutrons last before they decay

By Paul Sutter - June 16, 2020 05:47 PM UTC | Physics

Tiny Cubesat Detects an Exoplanet

By Matthew Williams - June 16, 2020 05:36 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A team of MIT researchers have observed a Super-Earth using a CubeSat, making it the smallest satellite to study an exoplanet.

New Estimate Calculates There Could be 30 Intelligent Civilizations Communicating Across the Milky Way

By Nancy Atkinson - June 16, 2020 02:38 PM UTC | Milky Way

New Pictures of Phobos, Seen in the Infrared

By Evan Gough - June 16, 2020 01:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Space Dust Delivered Water to Vesta, Could it Have Done the Same for Earth?

By Evan Gough - June 15, 2020 07:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hilarious Supercut of Astronauts Falling on the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - June 15, 2020 05:06 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Scientists are much better at predicting when the Sun is going to become more active

By Paul Sutter - June 15, 2020 04:22 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Well. It Looks Like James Webb is Getting Delayed Again, but it Should Still Launch in 2021

By Evan Gough - June 15, 2020 04:07 PM UTC | Telescopes

Evidence is Building that the Standard Model of the Expansion of the Universe Needs some new Ideas

By Brian Koberlein - June 15, 2020 12:31 PM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers have measured the Hubble constant using astrophysical masers, and the result makes our understanding of cosmic expansion even worse.

New Horizons is so Far From Earth That the Positions of the Stars Look a Little Different From its Perspective

By Matthew Williams - June 14, 2020 01:23 PM UTC | Missions

From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not only groundbreaking, but historic!

A 2nd Planet has been Confirmed for Proxima Centauri

By Evan Gough - June 12, 2020 07:19 PM UTC | Exoplanets

How SpaceX is Changing Starship to be Able to Land on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - June 12, 2020 05:48 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Elon Musk recently revealed more details about the HLS Starship, which could be taking astronauts back to the Moon.

This is a Binary Star in the Process of Formation

By Evan Gough - June 12, 2020 04:03 PM UTC | Stars

Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming... on Mars?

By Matthew Williams - June 12, 2020 02:52 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on Mars.

Early Life Was Pumping Out Oxygen, But the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing it

By Evan Gough - June 12, 2020 11:52 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Once Starship Prototypes are Done Exploding, we could see an Orbital Launch this Year

By Matthew Williams - June 11, 2020 06:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

According to a leaked internal email, SpaceX is all-in on the development of the Starship, which the company's chief engineer says could make an orbital flight before the end of the year.

Titan is Drifting Away from Saturn Surprisingly Quickly

By Evan Gough - June 11, 2020 05:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science