Universe Today
Extremophiles: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
It Takes a Supercomputer to Properly Simulate a Neutron Star's Surface
Against all Odds. Japan's SLIM Lander Survived a Second Lunar Night Upside Down
Radio Astronomy: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
The Search for the Perfect Coronagraph to Find Earth 2.0
A Supermassive Black Hole with a Case of the Hiccups
Meteorites: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
China's Relay Satellite is in Lunar Orbit
The Hubble Aims Its Powerful Ultraviolet Eye at Super-Hot Stars
Search for Life on Mars Could Level-Up with MARSE Mission Concept
Thermal Modeling of a Pulsed Plasma Rocket Shows It Should Be Possible To Create One
Civilizations Could Time Their Communications Based on the Movement of a Single Star
The ESA's Mars Rover Gets a New Map
Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explode Almost in Realtime
Neutron Stars are Jetting Material Away at 40% the Speed of Light
Lunar Night Permanently Ends the Odysseus Mission
Webb Joins the Hunt for Protoplanets
This Supernova Lit Up the Sky in 1181. Here's What it Looks Like Now
Hubble Sees a Star About to Ignite
This is an image of the FS Tau multi-star system taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The bright object at the nebula's heart is FS Tau A, a newly ignited T Tauri star, but its companion on the right side, FS Tau B, hasn't ignited yet. It's still in the process of collapsing and heating up, releasing heat from the gravitational collapse. The Harbig-Haro protostar releases jets of fast-moving energized material, visible as the blue material stretching across the nebula.
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This Black Hole is a Total Underachiever
Someone Just Found SOHO's 5,000th Comet
Astronomers Only Knew of a Single Binary Cepheid System. Now They Just Found Nine More
DART Changed the Shape of Asteroid Dimorphos, not Just its Orbit
Cosmochemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
Webb Finds Deep Space Alcohol and Chemicals in Newly Forming Planetary
Mercury is the Perfect Destination for a Solar Sail
Phew, De-Icing Euclid's Instruments Worked. It's Seeing Better Now
New View Reveals Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy's Giant Black Hole
A Single Grain of Ice Could Hold Evidence of Life on Europa and Enceladus
NASA Reveals its Planetary Science Goals for Artemis III
Watch a Real-Time Map of Starlinks Orbiting Earth
In a Distant Solar System, the JWST Sees the End of Planet Formation
Europe Has Big Plans for Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Mars' Gale Crater was Filled with Water for Much Longer Than Anyone Thought
Merging Stars Can Lead to Blue Supergiants
Blue supergiants are a rare type of star that is vastly larger and more luminous than the Sun. They can have 16-40 times the mass of the Sun and put out 10,000 times more radiation. Only a tiny fraction of the most massive stars should become blue supergiants, yet they're more common in the Universe than they should be. A new study has shown that merging stars can account for the discrepancy, turning two smaller stars into a single blue supergiant.
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Gaia Finds Ancient Streams of Stars That Formed the Milky Way
NASA's VERITAS Mission Breathes New Life
Life Might Be Difficult to Find on a Single Planet But Obvious Across Many Worlds
Brown Dwarf Pairs Drift Apart in Old Age
Dwarf Galaxies Could be the Key to Explaining Dark Matter
If dark matter is a particle, it's possible that it could self-annihilate, becoming normal matter and releasing gamma radiation. Dwarf galaxies are the best objects to search for this radiation because they're small, rich in dark matter, and don't have other phenomena that could contaminate the view. A new survey examined 50 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and saw a faint hint of gamma radiation that could be coming from dark matter annihilation.
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An Asteroid Found Sharing the Orbit of Mars
The Sound of an Interstellar Meteor Might Have Just Been a Rumbling Truck
Webb Watches the Most Distant Galactic Merger Ever Seen
Parker Solar Probe Was Blasted by Coronal Mass Ejections 28 Times in 4 Years
Ice is Starting to Cloud Euclid's Optics
Northrup Grumman is Studying How to Build a Railway on the Moon
Red Giants Offer a New Way to Measure Distance in the Universe
Starshot ... Not? Get a Reality Check on the Search for Alien Civilizations
Finding Atmospheres on Red Dwarf Planets Will Take Hundreds of Hours of Webb Time
Europa Might Not Be Able to Support Life in its Oceans
