Universe Today
Astronomers Identify 164 Promising Targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
A Primordial Dark Matter Galaxy Found Without Stars
Machine Learning Could Find all the Martian Caves We Could Ever Want
Is K2-18b Covered in Oceans of Water or Oceans of Lava?
Astronomers Rule Out One Explanation for the Hubble Tension
Astronomers measure the Universe's expansion rate and have found a discrepancy between the speed nearby versus the speed measured in the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is known as the Hubble Tension, and the search is on for anything that could explain it. One possible explanation is measurement error, which causes the Cepheid variables in galaxies to be too close together, obscuring results. New observations from JWST have removed this as an explanation.
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Webb Blocks the Star to See a Debris Disk Around Beta Pictoris
A Hot Jupiter With a Comet-Like Tail
NASA Selects New Technology to Help Search for Life on Mars
Gigantic Galaxy Clusters Found Just Before They're Awash in Star Formation
Astronomers have found examples of giant galaxy clusters dozens of times larger than the Milky Way with all the raw materials for star formation, but they haven't gotten going yet. NASA's Chandra and other telescopes found regions of gas blazing in x-ray radiation between 3.4 and 9.9 billion light-years from Earth. The total mass of the gas outweighs all the stars typically found in hundreds of galaxies in galaxy clusters.
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Why Serious Scientists Are Mesmerized by the Multiverse
Shhh, NASA Reveals its New Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
China Tests an All-Solid Rocket
Since Interstellar Objects Crashed Into Earth in the Past, Could They Have Brought Life?
Black Holes and Neutron Stars are Finally Linked to Supernovae
Big Planets Don't Necessarily Mean Big Moons
Gravitational Waves Could Show us the First Minute of the Universe
Microbes Can Survive in Saltier Water than Previously Believed
Two Giant Structures Have Been Found Billions of Light-Years Away
This Alien Landscape is Actually a Microscopic View of an Atomic Clock
Half of this Exoplanet is Covered in Lava
The Meteorites That Made Earth Were Filled With Water
Dark Matter Could Map the Universe's Early Magnetic Fields
Even though we still don't know what dark matter is, astronomers can use it as a natural telescope lens with gravitational lensing. A new theoretical paper suggests that mini-halos of dark matter in the early Universe could be used as a probe to map out primordial magnetic fields. These magnetic fields are everywhere in the cosmos today, but were they produced in the early stages of the Universe? It depends on the influence of magnetic fields on dark matter.
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A Self-Eating Engine Could Make Rockets More Efficient
There are Mysteries at Venus. It's Time for an Astrobiology Mission
Parker Solar Probe Skims the Sun on its 18th Flyby
Planetesimals Are Buffeted by Wind in their Nebula, Throwing Debris into Space
Solar Electric Propulsion Systems are Just What we Need for Efficient Trips to Mars
Satellite Data Shows US East Coast is Sinking
Hubble Shows That a Fast Radio Burst Came From a Giant Group of Galaxies
Chinese Rocket Lofts the Einstein Probe and its "Lobster Eyes"
Impact Craters: Why study them and can they help us find life elsewhere?
A Giant Star is Fading Away. But First, it Had an Enormous Eruption
Another Example of a Fantastic Einstein Ring
The Youngest Planetary Disks Ever Seen
Astrobotic Confirms it Won't be Landing on the Moon
A Solo Brown Dwarf Found With Auroras
NASA is Pushing Back its Moon Landings to 2026
Three Iron Rings Around A Star Show Where Planets are Forming
1,500 New Type 1A Supernova Found as Part of the Dark Energy Survey
Young Stars in the Outskirts of Galaxies Finally Have an Explanation
NASA Selects Bold Proposal to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes
The Debate Continues. Do Wide Binaries Prove or Disprove MOND?
Can Alien Civilizations Detect Humanity?
JWST and Chandra Team Up for a Stunning View of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
The First Launch of ULA's Vulcan Goes Smoothly, but there's a Problem with its Lander Payload
NASA Selects the MAGGIE Solar-Powered Aircraft for the 2024 NIAC Program
Titan's "Magic Islands" Could Be Floating Blobs of Organic Solids
Japan's New X-Ray Observatory Sees First Light
Multiple Supernova Remnants Merging in a Distant Nebula
The 30 Dor B star-forming region is one of the most dramatic places in the Universe. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years from Earth, and is home to some of the most massive stars ever seen. It's been forming stars for the last 8-10 million years, the largest of which have detonated as supernovae, hurling material and seeding even more stars. A new image from Chandra has identified the remnants from at least two supernovae in the nebula.
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Should We Send Humans to Pluto?
