Universe Today
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
Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy?
In a series of papers, an international team claims they've found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes are responsible for cosmic expansion!
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Galaxies Aren't Just Stars. They're Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust
This is Your Brain on Spaceflight
When Neutron Stars Collide, the Explosion is Perfectly Spherical
Kilonova explosions are almost perfectly spherical, which could help us study cosmic expansion.
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What Would Happen if the Solar System Gained a Super-Earth?
The Mass of a Single Star (other than the Sun) has Been Directly Measured for the First Time
Webb Sees Three Galaxy Clusters Coming Together to Form a Megacluster
The latest JWST deep-field image provides a breathtaking view of Pandora's Cluster, which was previously imaged by Hubble.
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Another Russian Spacecraft is Leaking Coolant
A Russian spacecraft docked with the ISS has reportedly suffered a coolant link for the second time in just a few months.
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The Event Horizon Telescope Gazes into the Heart of a Distant Quasar
Ingenuity is Doing Surprisingly Well
After months of extreme cold, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter appears to be back in working order.
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A Galaxy has Been Found that's Almost Entirely Dark Matter
Perseverance is Building Up a Big Collection of Mars Samples
Magnetars are Extreme in Every Way, Even Their Volcanoes
Why are Jupiter's Trojan Regions so Unevenly Balanced With Asteroids?
Another Meteoroid Discovered Right Before it Hits the Atmosphere
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole, Hurtling Through Space Leaving Star Formation in its Wake
