Universe Today
Why String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions
Millions of Satellites Could Have a Profound Effect on the Earth's Ionosphere
The Holographic Secret of Black Holes
Toxic Gas is Leaking out of Enceladus. It's also a Building Block of Life.
Astronomers Scan Hundreds of Stars for "Anomalous Transits"
Scientists are Recommending IceCube Should be Eight Times Bigger
Could There Be a Black Hole Inside the Sun?
Primordial black holes are one explanation for dark matter, although it's not widely accepted. These black holes would have formed at the beginning of the Universe and would be at least the mass of a medium-sized asteroid. These black holes may have fallen into the stars if they are out there. These low-mass black holes would emit Hawking radiation, contributing to the star's radiation pressure. Is there a way we could know if there's a black hole inside the Sun?
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Hubble Sees a Random Collection of Galaxies, Perfectly Lined Up
Photonic Crystals Could Be Exactly What Breakthrough Starshot is Looking For
17 Known Exoplanets Could Have Oceans of Liquid Water
What's the Source of Binary Rogue Planets?
Ancient Stars Could Make Elements With More Than 260 Nucleons
Elements heavier than iron, like gold or platinum, were created when massive stars died or through colliding neutron stars. Some of our heavy elements on Earth resulted from an even heavier element decaying through fission. Astronomers studied several stars and found elements that must have been formed through the death of previous generations of stars and the fission of their matter. Some of these elements would have been more than an atomic mass of 260.
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Weather in the Solar System Can Teach Us About Weather on Exoplanets
Trying to Communicate with Whales is Like Talking to Extraterrestrials
A Tiny Telescope is Revealing "Hot Jupiter" Secrets
Voyager 1 Has Another Problem With its Computer System
Breakthrough Listen Scans Entire Galaxies for Signals From Extremely Advanced Civilizations
Betelgeuse Versus the Asteroid... What Happened?
A rare occultation of the bright star Betelgeuse by asteroid 319 Leona turned up mixed results.
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Dark Matter Could Cause Jupiter's Night Side to Glow
DART Showed We Can Move an Asteroid. Can We Do It More Efficiently?
Entropy is the Key to a Planet's Habitability
Webb Finds Icy Complex Organic Molecules Around Protostars: Ethanol, Methane, Formaldehyde, Formic Acid and Much More
Hubble Returns to Science Operations
Cool New Mission Trailer for Rosalind Franklin Rover
JWST Delivers A Fantastic New Image Of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
JWST Finds the Smallest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf
Planets Orbiting Pulsars Should Have Strange and Beautiful Auroras. And We Could Detect Them
How Do Superflares Get So Powerful?
Solar Storms Could Cause Mayhem to Trains
We've Entered a New Era: The Lunar Anthropocene
The Positions of Stars on an Ancient Navigation Device Tell us When it was Made
Review: Unistellar's eQuinox 2 Telescope and New Smart Solar Filter
Three Baby Stars Found at the Heart of the Milky Way
Exomoons Defy Discovery
Why Was it Tricky to Know the Distances to Galaxies JWST Was Seeing?
Psyche Gives Us Its First Images of Space
What Would a Modern "Golden Record" Include?
Amateur Astronomers Found Planets Crashing Into Each Other
Why 2023 is a Fine Year for the Geminid Meteors
One of the best meteor showers of the year puts on a fine display in 2023.
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15 Years of Data Reveal the Events Leading Up to Betelgeuse's "Great Dimming"
A Giant Stream of Stars is Flowing in Deep Space
Scientists Found Evidence Of A Nearby Kilonova 3.5 Million Years Ago
What Could a Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Do?
Iran Sent a Capsule Capable of Holding Animals into Orbit.
Did the Last Great Galactic Merger Create the Milky Way's Bar?
About 8-11 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy merged with the Milky Way, adding 50 billion solar masses of stars, gas, and dark matter. The object is known as the "Gaia Sausage" because of the extended stream of stars found using ESA's Gaia mission. Astronomers think the Milky Way's central bar formed roughly the same time as the merger. A new paper suggests that merging with the Gaia Sausage triggers the formation of the Milky Way's bar and the build-up of its disk.
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A Star Near the Center of the Milky Way is a Visitor from Beyond
The International Space Station Celebrates 25 Years in Space
Fly Slowly Through Enceladus' Plumes to Detect Life
OSIRIS-REx Failed to Deploy its Drogue Chute Properly. Now NASA has Figured out Why
In 1872, a Solar Storm Hit the Earth Generating Auroras from the Tropics to the Poles
