Universe Today
South Korea's Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon
Soon We'll Detect Extreme Objects Producing Gravitational Waves Continuously
The Outer Solar System Supplied a Surprising Amount of Earth's Water
Scientists Examine Geological Processes of Monad Regio on Neptune's Largest Moon, Triton
Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn
The latest results from the HERA Collaboration suggest how the earliest galaxies in the Universe slowly dispelled the cosmic "Dark Ages."
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Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape
An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope
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NASA has Simulated a Tiny Part of the Moon Here on Earth
Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon
Astronomers Find 25 Fast Radio Bursts That Repeat on a Regular Basis
Researchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration have announced the discovery of 25 new repeating FRBs, almost doubling the number of known events!
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Molecular Clouds Have Long Lives By Constantly Reassembling Themselves
Nuclear Rocket In 2027, JWST Problems, Starship WDR
Astronomers See Flashes on the Sun That Could be a Sign of an Upcoming Flare
Does Failing to Detect Aliens Mean We'll Never Be Contacted?
A Martian Meteorite Contains Organic Compounds. The Raw Ingredients for Life?
Beautiful New Hubble Photo Shows Hot, Young Variable Stars in the Orion Nebula
It's Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star's Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes
NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027.
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Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission
Truck-Sized Asteroid Flew Past Earth Yesterday, Coming Within 3,600 km
Webb NIRISS Instrument has Gone Offline
Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List
Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang
Perseverance Takes a Selfie to Show off Some of its Samples
There's a Crater on Mars That Looks Like a Bear
According to Simulations, the Milky Way is One in a Million
Study Shows How Cells Could Help Artemis Astronauts Exercise
New research aims to ensure astronauts' health by mimicking the human body's response to exercise.
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Spectacular Images of the Rare 'Green Comet' Gracing Our Skies
Physicist encourages continuing the search for life in Venus' atmosphere
Dust is Hiding how Powerful Quasars Really are
A new study has found that Active Galactic Nuclei are much brighter and similar to one another than previously thought.
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A New Survey of the Milky Way Reveals Billions of Objects, Helping to Map Our Surroundings in Three Dimensions
JWST Sees Frozen Water, Ammonia, Methane and Other Ices in a Protostellar Nebula
A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up
A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of decades.
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Titan's Dragonfly Test, New Nuclear Rocket, Shadow Universe
A new Propulsion System Could Levitate Vehicles in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere
Binary Dwarf Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Every 20 Hours. They Were Once Almost Touching
Light Pollution is Obscuring the Night Sky. RIP Stargazing
A new way to Peer Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon, Searching for Deposits of Water ice
Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam
Instead of Building Structures on Mars, we Could Grow Them With the Help of Bacteria
A new process that combines bacteria and lichen could "grow" bricks from Martian soil. The proposal selected for development by the NASA Advanced Innovation Concepts program.
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Exploring the Outer Solar System Takes Power, Here's a Way to Miniaturize Nuclear Batteries for Deep Space
Could Next-Generation Telescopes See That Earth Has Life?
By Blocking the Light From a Star, Webb Reveals the Dusty Disk Surrounding It
The Donut That Used To Be a Star
You're Looking at a Map of the Milky Way's Magnetic Field
Unistellar Releases a New Smartscope: the eQuinox 2
Unistellar's eQuinox 2 is set to continue the smartscope revolution.
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New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
NASA's Advanced Innovation Concepts (NAIC) program selected a new type of bimodal nuclear propulsion that could allow for missions to Mars in 45 days!
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A Black Hole is Savoring its Meal, Feeding on the Same Star Over and Over Again
Using the Shadows of Clusters to Measure the Universe
NASA's Psyche Mission is Back on. It'll Launch Towards its Metal Asteroid Target Later This Year
A Hybrid Fission/Fusion Reactor Could be the Best way to get Through the ice on Europa
A new proposal for a hybrid nuclear reactor could power missions to Europa, and was selected by NASA for Phase I development
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