Universe Today (Page 386)

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

Last Year's Total Solar Eclipse on Earth, Seen From the Moon

By Evan Gough - June 25, 2020 12:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 25, 2020 08:00 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Calculate the Number of Alien Civilizations in the Milky Way for Yourself.

By Matthew Williams - June 24, 2020 10:48 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new online tool created by a team of physicists allows users to calculate how many alien civilization could be out there for themselves!

Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars

By Evan Gough - June 24, 2020 08:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New Hubble Photos of Planetary Nebulae

By Evan Gough - June 24, 2020 05:21 PM UTC | Stars

Astronomers Just Detected Either the Least Massive Black Hole, or a Strange and Massive Neutron Star

By Brian Koberlein - June 24, 2020 04:04 PM UTC | Black Holes

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.

Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Started Out With Water Oceans, and Have Been Slowly Freezing Solid for Billions of Years

By Evan Gough - June 23, 2020 09:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Another Starship Test Ends in an Explosion (Intentionally This Time)

By Matthew Williams - June 23, 2020 07:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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.

Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July

By David Dickinson - June 23, 2020 12:22 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Comet U6 Lemmon promises to be a fine binocular object at dusk.

If You Could See in X-rays, This is What the Universe Would Look Like

By Nancy Atkinson - June 23, 2020 12:15 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Antares is a supergiant star that would fill the Solar System beyond Mars, but its atmosphere is 12 times bigger than that

By Paul Sutter - June 22, 2020 07:26 PM UTC | Stars

Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July

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