Universe Today
Exos Aerospace Completes Successful Launch Test of Their SARGE Rocket
The commercial launch provider Exos aerospace successfully completed its launch test, pushing the company closer to providing greater access to space
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How Hubble Unlocked the Universe
A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day
Astronomers observed a red dwarf superflare much more powerful than anything our Sun can produce. Bad news for any habitable-zone planets orbiting it.
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How Mission Delays Hurt Young Astronomers
A Star Exploded as a Supernova and Then Collapsed Into a Neutron Star. But Only a Fraction of its Matter was Released
An international team of scientists recently witnessed the birth of a binary neutron star system, which was indicated by a rather faint and short-lived supernova.
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Review: The Most Unknown
We recently came across a fascinating documentary that not only looks at some of the big questions today in multi-interdisciplinary science.
We're talking about The Most Unknown, directed by Peabody-award winning filmmaker Ian Cheney
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Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far
Using the Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in western Australia, a team of researchers almost doubled the number of FRBs observed in our Universe
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Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star
Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 17, 2018 - Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager, JWST
Here's What the First Images from the Event Horizon Might Look Like
The Event Horizon Telescope has completed its observations. Now scientists are crunching the data and hope to soon have the very first picture of a black hole's event horizon.
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You've Got to Watch this Stunning NASA Video of Arctic Sea Ice. Now at its Lowest Levels
In the 60 years that NASA has been keeping track, the arctic seasonal sea ice is the thinnest and youngest it's ever been. It also covers a much smaller area.
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Astronomers Get Ready, Another Artificial Star to Ruin Your Data is Coming. Artist is Planning to Launch a Giant, Unfolding Structure That'll be Bright in the Sky For a Few Months
In collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art and some private aerospace companies, artists Trevor Paglen plans to launch the world's first satellite that has a strictly artistic purpose.
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Plans for a Modular Martian Base that Would Provide its own Radiation Shielding
At this year's AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, engineer Marco Peroni presented his proposal for a modular Martian base that would provide its own radiation shielding.
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The Path that MASCOT Took Across Asteroid Ryugu During its 17 Hours of Life
The tiny robot lander MASCOT did a fine job on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, and its zigzag path allowed it to gather important data on this ancient piece of rock.
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Carnival of Space #582
Even Ganymede is Showing Tectonic Activity. We're Going to Need Another Icy Moon Orbiter
A new study shows that the surface of Ganymede was once a very tectonically active place, with evidence of slip-faulting similar to the San Andreas Fault.
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The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale
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Next Generation Telescopes Could Use "Teleportation" to Take Better Images
According to a new study by an international team of scientists, quantum mechanics may allow for some truly-cutting edge astronomy in the near future.
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What Neil Armstrong's Sons Really Think About the Movie "First Man"
