Universe Today (Page 81)

An Alternative Theory of Inertia will Get Tested in Space

By Matthew Williams - March 19, 2023 05:00 PM UTC | Missions

This summer, the first all-electric thruster will be tested in orbit. This technology could revolutionize commercial space as know it!

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Sees A Beautiful Sunset on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - March 19, 2023 04:45 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Watch the Chelyabinsk Meteor Breakup in this Detailed Simulation

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - March 19, 2023 04:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Universe Sparkles in Gamma Rays in this New NASA Animation

By Evan Gough - March 17, 2023 02:52 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Planets Might Protect their Water Until their Star Settles Down

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - March 16, 2023 08:51 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Best Way to Learn About Venus Could Be With a Fleet of Balloons

By Andy Tomaswick - March 16, 2023 05:51 PM UTC | Planetary Science

ExoMars is Back on Track for Mars in 2028

By Evan Gough - March 16, 2023 03:07 PM UTC | Missions

Perseverance Watches Carefully as Ingenuity Lifts Off for its 47th Flight

By Nancy Atkinson - March 16, 2023 11:53 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Potentially Active Volcanoes Have Been Found on Venus

By Nancy Atkinson - March 16, 2023 10:55 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Didymos is Spinning So Quickly That Rocks are Detaching at its Equator and Going Into Orbit

By sjohnston - March 15, 2023 10:44 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The State of Suborbital Space Science

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - March 15, 2023 04:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Prelude to a Supernova: The James Webb Captures a Rare Wolf-Rayet Star

By Evan Gough - March 15, 2023 04:19 PM UTC | Stars

NASA and Axiom Space Do a Partial Reveal of the Spacesuit That Will be Worn on the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - March 15, 2023 01:11 PM UTC | Space Exploration

It's Time to Start Planning Your 2023/2024 Eclipse Adventures

By Nancy Atkinson - March 15, 2023 11:33 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Pluto Team Updates Science From the Solar System's Edge

By Alan Boyle - March 14, 2023 11:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Warm Carbon Increased Suddenly in the Early Universe. Made by the First Stars?

By Matthew Williams - March 14, 2023 06:59 PM UTC | Cosmology

New research shows that carbon was more abundant in the early Universe than previously thought, a find that could have drastic implications for theories on cosmic evolution.

Even the Calmest Red Dwarfs are Wilder than the Sun

By Evan Gough - March 14, 2023 03:30 PM UTC | Stars

Exploring Lava Tubes on Other Worlds Will Need Rovers That Can Work Together

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - March 14, 2023 11:51 AM UTC | Planetary Science

JWST Sees So Many Galaxies, and It's Just Getting Started

By Nancy Atkinson - March 14, 2023 10:25 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Finding Life in the Solar System Means Crunching a Lot of Data. The Perfect Job for Machine Learning

By Andy Tomaswick - March 14, 2023 10:09 AM UTC | Astrobiology

Don't Panic Over the Risk of an Asteroid Smashup in 2046

By Alan Boyle - March 13, 2023 08:59 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Distant Galaxy Ate All of its Friends. Now It's All Alone

By Matthew Williams - March 13, 2023 07:38 PM UTC | Extragalactic

An international team of astronomers discovered a "fossil galaxy" that consume its neighbors, the farthest observed to date!

Researchers Build a Telescope with a Flat Lens

By Andy Tomaswick - March 13, 2023 05:47 PM UTC | Telescopes

A Human Migration to Space is NOT so Inevitable, says New Research

By Matthew Williams - March 13, 2023 12:45 PM UTC | Space Policy

A new study looks at what it takes to survive beyond Earth, raising serious questions about whether or not human migrations to space is "Inevitable."

Christiaan Huygens' Telescope Lenses Tell Us He Was Nearsighted

By sjohnston - March 11, 2023 09:03 PM UTC | Observing

China's Giant Rocket, Dark Big Bang, Next Bright Comet

By kuingul-gmail - March 11, 2023 07:33 PM UTC | Cosmology

Water's Epic Journey to Earth Began Before the Sun Formed

By Evan Gough - March 10, 2023 04:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars Has Bizarre "Swiss Cheese" Terrain. You can Thank Water, Carbon Dioxide and 500,000 years of Climate History for That

By Nancy Atkinson - March 10, 2023 03:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronauts Could Clear Lunar Dust Away with Nitrogen Spray

By Andy Tomaswick - March 10, 2023 09:26 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Want Artemis to Succeed? Virtual Reality Can Help

By Evan Gough - March 09, 2023 05:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Look out, Starship! China is Building a Massive Reusable Rocket!

By Matthew Williams - March 09, 2023 02:48 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China just showed off the massive storage tank that will be part of the super-heavy launch vehicle, the Long March 9.

NASA Restores a Spacecraft by Turning it Off and Then On Again

By Nancy Atkinson - March 09, 2023 02:11 PM UTC | Missions

Strange Green Lines Above Hawaii was Probably a Chinese Satellite

By Andy Tomaswick - March 09, 2023 11:23 AM UTC | Space Policy

A Helicopter is Going to Titan. Could an Airplane be Next?

By Nancy Atkinson - March 09, 2023 11:11 AM UTC | Planetary Science

What Time is It on the Moon? It May Get its Own Timezone

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - March 08, 2023 04:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Curiosity Sees Spectacular Crepuscular Rays in Martian Clouds

By Nancy Atkinson - March 08, 2023 02:09 PM UTC | Planetary Science

China's Rover Used Radar to Look Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars. What Did it Find?

By Andy Tomaswick - March 08, 2023 09:47 AM UTC | Planetary Science

2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: a Bright Comet for the End of 2024?

By David Dickinson - March 08, 2023 04:19 AM UTC | Planetary Science

New Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may put on a show at the end of next year.

TESS Shows That Even Small Stars Can Host Giant Planets

By Evan Gough - March 07, 2023 05:54 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - March 07, 2023 03:42 PM UTC | Black Holes

A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy, and concluded that it orbits a intermediate-mass black hole.