Universe Today Logo Universe Today
Home Videos Podcast Newsletter Join the Club RSS Feed

This Binary System is Destined to Become a Kilonova

By Evan Gough - February 02, 2023 08:56 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

The Historic Discussion of Ptolemy's Star Catalog

By jon-voisey - February 02, 2023 12:15 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

The First Stars May Have Weighed More Than 100,000 Suns

By Paul Sutter - February 02, 2023 11:46 AM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk

By Nancy Atkinson - February 02, 2023 11:04 AM UTC | Space Exploration
Continue reading

Good News! Webb is Fully Operational Again

By Nancy Atkinson - February 02, 2023 08:32 AM UTC | Telescopes
Continue reading

Soon Every Spacecraft can Navigate the Solar System Autonomously Using Pulsars

By sjohnston - February 01, 2023 10:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Continue reading

Astronomers Come Closer to Understanding How Mercury Formed

By Paul Sutter - February 01, 2023 09:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Rolls-Royce Reveals a Nuclear Reactor That Could Provide Power on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - February 01, 2023 07:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Rolls-Royce has released a teaser about the "micro-reactor" they are developing in partnership with the UK Space Agency.
Continue reading

Astronomers Detect a Second Planet Orbiting Two Stars

By Evan Gough - February 01, 2023 04:59 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Continue reading

Don't Bother Trying to Destroy Rubble Pile Asteroids

By Evan Gough - January 31, 2023 02:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Watch This 12-Year Timelapse of Exoplanets Orbiting Their Star

By Nancy Atkinson - January 31, 2023 10:55 AM UTC | Exoplanets
Continue reading

Freezing Ocean Might Not Be Responsible for Cryovolcanic Flows on Pluto's Moon, Charon

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 31, 2023 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

South Korea's Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 31, 2023 08:25 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Soon We'll Detect Extreme Objects Producing Gravitational Waves Continuously

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - January 31, 2023 12:54 AM UTC | Physics
Continue reading

The Outer Solar System Supplied a Surprising Amount of Earth's Water

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 30, 2023 11:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Scientists Examine Geological Processes of Monad Regio on Neptune's Largest Moon, Triton

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 30, 2023 11:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn

By Matthew Williams - January 30, 2023 07:12 PM UTC | Cosmology
The latest results from the HERA Collaboration suggest how the earliest galaxies in the Universe slowly dispelled the cosmic "Dark Ages."
Continue reading

Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape

By Matthew Williams - January 30, 2023 04:18 PM UTC | Telescopes
An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope
Continue reading

NASA has Simulated a Tiny Part of the Moon Here on Earth

By Nancy Atkinson - January 30, 2023 02:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon

By Paul Sutter - January 30, 2023 11:51 AM UTC | Telescopes
Continue reading

Astronomers Find 25 Fast Radio Bursts That Repeat on a Regular Basis

By Matthew Williams - January 29, 2023 10:03 PM UTC | Extragalactic
Researchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration have announced the discovery of 25 new repeating FRBs, almost doubling the number of known events!
Continue reading

Molecular Clouds Have Long Lives By Constantly Reassembling Themselves

By Paul Sutter - January 29, 2023 09:08 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

Nuclear Rocket In 2027, JWST Problems, Starship WDR

By kuingul-gmail - January 29, 2023 07:02 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Continue reading

Astronomers See Flashes on the Sun That Could be a Sign of an Upcoming Flare

By Nancy Atkinson - January 29, 2023 02:35 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
Continue reading

Does Failing to Detect Aliens Mean We'll Never Be Contacted?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 29, 2023 03:30 AM UTC | Astrobiology
Continue reading

A Martian Meteorite Contains Organic Compounds. The Raw Ingredients for Life?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 28, 2023 10:11 PM UTC | Astrobiology
Continue reading

Beautiful New Hubble Photo Shows Hot, Young Variable Stars in the Orion Nebula

By Nancy Atkinson - January 28, 2023 02:11 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

It's Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star's Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes

By Evan Gough - January 27, 2023 05:39 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Continue reading

NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space

By Matthew Williams - January 27, 2023 02:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027.
Continue reading

Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission

By Nancy Atkinson - January 27, 2023 02:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Continue reading

Truck-Sized Asteroid Flew Past Earth Yesterday, Coming Within 3,600 km

By Nancy Atkinson - January 27, 2023 09:44 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Webb NIRISS Instrument has Gone Offline

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 05:39 PM UTC | Telescopes
Continue reading

Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 04:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang

By Evan Gough - January 26, 2023 01:41 PM UTC | Extragalactic
Continue reading

Perseverance Takes a Selfie to Show off Some of its Samples

By Nancy Atkinson - January 26, 2023 12:55 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

There's a Crater on Mars That Looks Like a Bear

By Nancy Atkinson - January 26, 2023 10:57 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

According to Simulations, the Milky Way is One in a Million

By Evan Gough - January 25, 2023 03:52 PM UTC | Milky Way
Continue reading

Study Shows How Cells Could Help Artemis Astronauts Exercise

By Matthew Williams - January 25, 2023 02:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration
New research aims to ensure astronauts' health by mimicking the human body's response to exercise.
Continue reading

Spectacular Images of the Rare 'Green Comet' Gracing Our Skies

By Nancy Atkinson - January 25, 2023 10:36 AM UTC | Observing
Continue reading

Physicist encourages continuing the search for life in Venus' atmosphere

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 25, 2023 12:44 AM UTC | Astrobiology
Continue reading

Dust is Hiding how Powerful Quasars Really are

By Matthew Williams - January 24, 2023 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic
A new study has found that Active Galactic Nuclei are much brighter and similar to one another than previously thought.
Continue reading

A New Survey of the Milky Way Reveals Billions of Objects, Helping to Map Our Surroundings in Three Dimensions

By Evan Gough - January 24, 2023 02:55 PM UTC | Milky Way
Continue reading

JWST Sees Frozen Water, Ammonia, Methane and Other Ices in a Protostellar Nebula

By Nancy Atkinson - January 24, 2023 01:14 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up

By Matthew Williams - January 23, 2023 05:51 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of decades.
Continue reading

Titan's Dragonfly Test, New Nuclear Rocket, Shadow Universe

By kuingul-gmail - January 22, 2023 06:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

A new Propulsion System Could Levitate Vehicles in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

By Andy Tomaswick - January 21, 2023 11:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Continue reading

Binary Dwarf Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Every 20 Hours. They Were Once Almost Touching

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2023 06:25 PM UTC | Stars
Continue reading

Light Pollution is Obscuring the Night Sky. RIP Stargazing

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2023 03:46 PM UTC | Observing
Continue reading

A new way to Peer Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon, Searching for Deposits of Water ice

By Andy Tomaswick - January 20, 2023 10:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science
Continue reading

Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2023 05:37 PM UTC | Physics
Continue reading
Page 84 of 587 pages
← Previous Page | Next Page →

© 2025 Universe Today

A space and astronomy news site

Support our ad-free content

Become a Patron
Contact Us Privacy Policy

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.