Universe Today
Does the Rise of AI Explain the Great Silence in the Universe?
If We Want to Visit More Asteroids, We Need to Let the Spacecraft Think for Themselves
Testing a Probe that Could Drill into an Ice World
What Could We Build With Lunar Regolith?
The World's Largest Digital Camera is Complete. It Will Go Into the Vera Rubin Observatory
The First Atmospheric Rainbow on an Exoplanet?
Astronomers think they've detected the first-ever rainbow-like "glory effect" on an exoplanet. The observations were made with ESA's Cheops mission, which helps to pin down the characteristics of known exoplanets, including the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b. When the star's light passes through a planet's atmosphere, it creates colorful concentric rings that have been seen on Earth and even Venus but never on an exoplanet.
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Roman Will Learn the Ages of Hundreds of Thousands of Stars
Webb Sees a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation
The Stellar Demolition Derby in the Centre of the Galaxy
A New Map Shows the Universe's Dark Energy May Be Evolving
Why is it so hard to drill off Earth?
Want to Start a Farm on Mars? This Rover Will Find Out if it's Possible
Which Animal Has Seen the Most Total Solar Eclipses?
The Moon Will Get its Own Time Zone
A New Tabletop Experiment to Search for Dark Matter
NASA Announces Starliner's Next Launch Attempt: May 6
Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock
Start Your Engines: NASA Picks 3 Teams to Work on Lunar Terrain Vehicle
The Large Magellanic Cloud isn't Very Metal
Could We Directly Observe Volcanoes on an Exoplanet?
What's the Earliest the Moon Could Have Formed?
How Animal Movements Help Us Study the Planet
Mapping Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars from Space
A Robot Hopper to Explore the Moon's Dangerous Terrain
Inside a Week to Totality: Weather Prospects, Solar Activity and More
Looking at prospects for eclipse day and totality.
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Want to Leave the Solar System? Here's a Route to Take
Curiosity has Reached an Ancient Debris Channel That Could Have Been Formed by Water
Where Are All These Rogue Planets Coming From?
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
