Universe Today
An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds
It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days
A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.
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Astronomers Go Hunting for Mysterious Q-balls
Why are Earth's Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
ESA's Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter's unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system's innermost world.
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A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought to be impossible.
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The Dark Energy Camera Captures the Remains of an Ancient Supernova
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of the galaxy.
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Astronomers Prepare for a Total View of Total Solar Eclipses
Blue Origin is Building Solar Cells out of (Simulated) Lunar Regolith
Spectacular Night Launch Sends SpaceX Crew 6 to the Space Station
JWST Sees the Same Supernova Three Times in an Epic Gravitational Lens
Remember the DART impact? Hubble Made a Movie of the Debris
The James Webb Is Getting Closer to Finding What Ionized the Universe
Hubble Sees an Epic Merger of Three Galaxies
Humanity has Never Seen the sky in the Longest Wavelengths. That Could Change With a new Space Telescope
How Cold is Space?
Speedrunning Star Formation in the Cygnus X Region
Our Best Instruments Couldn't Find Life on Mars
Venus is Like an Exoplanet that's Right Next Door
Venus' Outer Shell is Thinner and "Squishier" Than Previously Believed
Universe-Breaking Galaxies, Source of Dark Energy, Mars Anniversary
A Replacement Soyuz Arrives Safely at the International Space Station
The Planet That Shouldn't Exist
Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field
The cosmic web is filled with magnetic fields, and we are starting to observe them at last.
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Not Just Water. Enceladus is Also Blasting Silica Into Space
A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies
Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it
Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
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59 New Planets Discovered in Our Neighborhood
The CARMENESE Consortium just released the first collection of data, which revealed 59 new exoplanets and doubled the number of known planets around Red Dwarf suns.
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Europa Could be Covered in Salty Ice
Recreating the Extreme Forces of an Asteroid Impact in the Lab
It Should be Possible to Farm on the Moon
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
How are Mars Rocks Getting "Shocked" by Meteorite Impacts?
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was young.
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"The Universe Breakers": Six Galaxies That are Too Big, Too Early
Clouds of Carbon Dust Seen When the Universe was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic evolution.
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Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.
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Can a Venus Lander Survive Longer Than a Few Minutes?
Astronomers Find a Group of Water-rich Asteroids
Cosmic Conjunction: Jupiter Meets Venus on March 1st
The two brightest planets pass less than half a degree apart at dusk on the night of March 1st.
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Meteorites are Contaminated Quickly When They Reach Earth
A 500-Meter-Long Asteroid Flew Past Earth, and Astronomers Were Watching
All of Jupiter's Large Moons Have Auroras
New observations have revealed that all four of Jupiter's largest moons have aurorae, and they are spectacular!
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Some Elements Arrived on Earth by Surfing Supernova Shock Waves
Follow Perseverance on Its Mars Journey With This Two-Year Timelapse
If Planet 9 has Moons, Would That Help Us Find It?
Happy Presidents Day: George Washington's Hair Set to Go to Deep Space
Meteor Explodes Over English Channel, Moon Breakthrough, Dark Matter Galaxy
ESA is Building an Early Warning System for Dangerous Asteroids
