Universe Today
Mars 2020 Rover is Going to a Place on Mars That's Perfect for Preserving Fossils
Weekly Space Hangout: November 13, 2019 - Dr. Rory Barnes talks VPLanet
Satellites Watched Mercury's Transit From Space, Confirming That Yes, the Sun Has At Least One Planet
Carnival of Space #637
November Meteors: Taurids, Leonids and a Surprise Monocerotids Outburst
For the northern hemisphere observers, November is fireball season. This month, keep an eye out for two sure-fire annual meteor showers, and—just maybe—a wild card outburst from the obscure Alpha Monocerotids worth watching out for.
Continue reading
SpaceX Launches Another 60 Starlink Satellites
Watch a Simulation of a Galaxy, From the Big Bang Until the Present Day
The large-scale and highly-detailed TNG50 simulation has allowed scientists to shed new light on the evolution of the cosmos and galaxies.
Continue reading
TESS Has Now Captured Almost the Entire Southern Sky. Here's a Mosaic Made of 15,347 Photographs
NASA has just released a beautiful panoramic image of the southern sky, which is composed of images taken by the TESS mission during its first year.
Continue reading
This Artificial Leaf Turns Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
Researchers from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, have developed an "artificial leaf" that has the potential to turn carbon emissions into a source of biofuel.
Continue reading
NASA is Testing a Coating to Help Astronauts and Their Equipment Shed Dangerous Lunar Dust
NASA is developing an advanced new coating that could protect everything from spacecraft systems to astronauts from harmful lunar dust.
Continue reading
What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space
Weekly Space Hangout: November 6, 2019 - Tiera & Myron Fletcher, Engineers on NASA's Space Launch System
New Research Suggests that the Universe is a Sphere and Not Flat After All
The First Stars Formed Very Quickly
Based on a new study, it is possible that the first stars in our Universe formed about 1 billion years earlier than we thought.
Continue reading
Boeing's Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy
NASA Has a New Method For Cooling Down Electronics Crammed Together in a Spacecraft
Engineers at NASA Goddard have completed flight tests on their revolutionary new cooling system, which has the potential to lead to smaller electronics.
Continue reading
Carnival of Space #635-636
Our Guide to the November 11th, 2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun
The Lowest Mass Black Hole has Been Found, only 3.3 Times the Mass of the Sun
A team of astronomers recently discovered the smallest black hole to date, which indicates that there may be far more out there than we previously thought.
Continue reading
Asteroid Hygiea is Round Enough That it Could Qualify as a Dwarf Planet, the Smallest in the Solar System
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf planet to date!
Continue reading