Study of 200,000 Galaxies Reveals the Entire Universe Might Have Been Spinning in One Direction Early On

By Brian Koberlein - June 03, 2020 11:39 AM UTC | Cosmology

A new study finds evidence that the universe as a whole is rotating, and that could have big implications for cosmology.

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Barred Spiral NGC 3895 Captured by Hubble

By Evan Gough - June 03, 2020 11:32 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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New Simulations Show How Black Holes Grow, Through Mergers and Accretion

By Evan Gough - June 02, 2020 06:54 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Want to Mine Ice on the Moon? Scientists Create a Map for Where to Start

By Nancy Atkinson - June 02, 2020 06:03 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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The Meteor Impact that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Created a Vast Underground Hydrothermal System

By Evan Gough - June 02, 2020 04:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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How to See This Friday's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

By David Dickinson - June 02, 2020 01:39 PM UTC | Observing

Eclipse season resumes on June 5th, with a fine penumbral lunar eclipse.

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Black Hole Seen Blasting Out Jets at Close to the Speed of Light

By Evan Gough - June 01, 2020 10:14 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Huge Stars Can Destroy Nearby Planetary Disks

By Evan Gough - June 01, 2020 07:34 PM UTC | Stars

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Rare "Ring Galaxy" Seen in the Early Universe

By Matthew Williams - June 01, 2020 04:29 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Astronomers have discovered a collisional ring galaxy that existed when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, a find which could have implications for our theories on galactic evolution.

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NASA and SpaceX Make History with Successful Crew Dragon Launch!

By Matthew Williams - May 30, 2020 05:30 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and SpaceX made history today with the launch of second demonstration flight of the Crew Dragon (Demo-2), which signalled the restoration of the US' domestic launch capability!

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Maybe the Elusive Planet 9 Doesn't Exist After All

By Evan Gough - May 29, 2020 07:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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SN4, We Hardly Knew You. Another Starship Prototype Lost!

By Matthew Williams - May 29, 2020 07:51 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX suffered yet another setback when their SN4 prototype exploded into a fireball during a static fire test of its single Raptor engine.

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Due to Weather Delay, NASA & SpaceX Push Historic Launch to Saturday

By Matthew Williams - May 29, 2020 06:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration

This Saturday, NASA and SpaceX will make their second attempt to send astronauts to the ISS from US soil for the first time since 2011!

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Mars Doesn't Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here's a Map

By Evan Gough - May 29, 2020 06:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A New Kind of Supernova Explosion has been Discovered: Fast Blue Optical Transients

By Evan Gough - May 29, 2020 04:24 PM UTC | Stars

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How to Make the Food and Water Mars-Bound Astronauts Will Need for Their Mission

By Matthew Williams - May 29, 2020 02:45 PM UTC | Space Exploration

New technologies are being developed that will ensure astronauts have plenty of drinking water and food wherever resupply missions are not readily available

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Powerful Telescope Confirms There's an Earth-Sized World Orbiting Proxima Centauri

By Brian Koberlein - May 29, 2020 01:15 PM UTC | Exoplanets

There is an Earth-sized planet only four light years from Earth. Whether it has life is yet to be known.

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On Mars, mud flows like lava

By Paul Sutter - May 29, 2020 12:59 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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This Rocket Engine's Thrust Chamber was 3D-printed and Only has Three Parts

By Nancy Atkinson - May 29, 2020 12:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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At cosmic distances, even the speed of light is really slow

By Paul Sutter - May 29, 2020 11:41 AM UTC | Cosmology

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