Universe Today
Catching a Ride on the Starlink Satellite Train: Midnight Marvel, or Night Sky Menace?
Theory proposes that Venus could have been habitable, but a large ocean slowed down its rotation, killing it
A new study supported by NASA has revealed that an ancient ocean on Venus might have been what slowed down its rotation, thus causing the runaway greenhouse effect that made it what it is today.
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Sen has Launched a 4K Video Stream to Space
In their drive towards "democratizing space", the private aerospace company Sen recently demonstrated the capabilities of their 4K video streaming satellite.
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SpaceX just launched 60 satellites for its Starlink Constellation. Internet service providers should be very worried.
SpaceX just launched the first 60 satellites that will make up their Starlink broadband internet service provider.
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An Insulating Layer of Gas Could Keep a Liquid Ocean Inside Pluto
A new study led by Japanese researchers indicates that Pluto could have a subsurface ocean, provided there is an "insulating layer" beneath the ice.
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The Collision that Created the Moon Might Have Also Brought Water to the Early Earth
Bizarre Star Could be the Result of Two White Dwarfs Merging Together
Weekly Space Hangout: May 22, 2019 - Dr. Susan Bailey of the NASA TWINS Study
NASA has Picked the Companies That'll Help Build its Lunar Landers
Don't Forget, Curiosity's Sister Rover is Flying to Mars in 2020
The Mars 2020 mission is getting ever closer to the day when it will be launched to the Red Planet.
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Planetary Society's Light Sail 2 is Set to Launch on a Falcon Heavy Rocket Next Month
Interview with Dennis E. Taylor, Author of the Bobiverse Trilogy
Chang'e-4 Lander and its Rover Have Turned up new Mysteries on the Moon's far side. The Moon's Mantle Blasted Onto the Surface?
China's Chang'e-4 lunar mission recently gathered data that suggests that the impact that created the largest impact crater on the Moon could have blasted some of its mantle material onto the surface.
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Mars Odyssey Reveals Phobos Using THEMIS
NASA's aging 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter recently snapped some unique views of the twin moons Phobos and Deimos, in an effort to better understand their texture and surface composition.
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Messier 86 - the NGC 4406 Elliptical Galaxy
Located in the constellation Virgo, about 54 million light years from Earth, is the elliptical galaxy known as Messier 86.
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Most of the Solar System Should be a Protected Wilderness. One-Eighth Left for Mining and Resource Exploitation
A new study by an astrophysicist and a professor of ethics takes a look at the future of humanity in space, and recommends we set aside most of the Solar System aside as protected wilderness.
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Carnival of Space #612
Can You Spot a Planetary Nebula from a Few Blurry Pixels? Astronomers Can - Here's How
Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes
In the ongoing search for intelligent life, a new study recommends that we look for signs of an advanced civilization harnessing the power of neutrinos to create a beacon.
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