Universe Today (Page 85)

Instead of Building Structures on Mars, we Could Grow Them With the Help of Bacteria

By Matthew Williams - January 19, 2023 04:06 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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.

Exploring the Outer Solar System Takes Power, Here's a Way to Miniaturize Nuclear Batteries for Deep Space

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2023 12:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Could Next-Generation Telescopes See That Earth Has Life?

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 07:12 PM UTC | Astrobiology

By Blocking the Light From a Star, Webb Reveals the Dusty Disk Surrounding It

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 06:05 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Donut That Used To Be a Star

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 01:15 PM UTC | Stars

You're Looking at a Map of the Milky Way's Magnetic Field

By Nancy Atkinson - January 18, 2023 12:29 PM UTC | Milky Way

Unistellar Releases a New Smartscope: the eQuinox 2

By David Dickinson - January 18, 2023 08:37 AM UTC | Telescopes

Unistellar's eQuinox 2 is set to continue the smartscope revolution.

New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days

By Matthew Williams - January 17, 2023 06:11 PM UTC | Missions

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!

A Black Hole is Savoring its Meal, Feeding on the Same Star Over and Over Again

By Evan Gough - January 17, 2023 05:08 PM UTC | Black Holes

Using the Shadows of Clusters to Measure the Universe

By Paul Sutter - January 17, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Cosmology

NASA's Psyche Mission is Back on. It'll Launch Towards its Metal Asteroid Target Later This Year

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 16, 2023 09:57 PM UTC | Missions

A Hybrid Fission/Fusion Reactor Could be the Best way to get Through the ice on Europa

By Matthew Williams - January 16, 2023 05:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal for a hybrid nuclear reactor could power missions to Europa, and was selected by NASA for Phase I development

How did Dimorphos Form?

By Paul Sutter - January 16, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Why Does the Butterfly Nebula Look Like This?

By Nancy Atkinson - January 16, 2023 11:29 AM UTC | Stars

Cosmic Noon was Billions of Years ago, When Many Galaxies Were Filled With Star-Forming Nebulae Like This

By sjohnston - January 15, 2023 11:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

Many of the World's Greatest Observatories Suffer from Some Light Pollution

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 15, 2023 08:22 PM UTC | Observing

How Crazy Magnetic Fields Drive the Sun Mad

By Paul Sutter - January 15, 2023 02:02 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Mars Rover's Dead, Comet Incoming, JWST's First Exoplanet

By kuingul-gmail - January 14, 2023 06:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA's Exoplanet Watch Wants Your Help Studying Planets Around Other Stars

By Matthew Williams - January 14, 2023 04:58 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!

Astronomers Spot an Orphaned Protostar

By Paul Sutter - January 14, 2023 02:02 PM UTC | Stars

How Life Reshapes the Habitable Zone

By Paul Sutter - January 13, 2023 08:22 PM UTC | Astrobiology

UFO Update Says Pentagon's Case Count Is Rising Rapidly

By Alan Boyle - January 13, 2023 07:00 PM UTC | Site News

NASA Satellites can Pinpoint the Exact Locations of Excessive CO2 Emissions

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2023 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Using data from two climate monitoring satellites, a group led by Canadian researchers tracked carbon emissions from a single coal plant in Europe.

One Day There Could be a Pipeline of Oxygen Flowing From the Moon's South Pole

By Evan Gough - January 13, 2023 04:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Used a Fast Radio Burst to Probe the Structure of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2023 04:08 PM UTC | Milky Way

Astronomers from Caltech used a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from another galaxy to probe the distribution of matter in the Milky Way.

TESS has Found A Second Earth-Sized World in This System. Exoplanet Science is Maturing

By Evan Gough - January 13, 2023 02:45 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA is Continuing to Build the Titan Dragonfly Helicopter. Here are its Rotors

By Andy Tomaswick - January 12, 2023 11:44 PM UTC | Missions

JWST Pioneer Passes Along Advice for Future Space Telescope Builders

By Alan Boyle - January 12, 2023 11:37 PM UTC | Telescopes

Astronomers Begin to Understand Strange "Backsplash" Galaxies

By Paul Sutter - January 12, 2023 08:26 PM UTC | Extragalactic

The Webb Has Confirmed its First Exoplanet, and it's the Same Size as Earth.

By Evan Gough - January 12, 2023 06:38 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Astronomers use the World's Biggest Radio Telescope to map new Features of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - January 12, 2023 04:38 PM UTC | Milky Way

Using China's FAST radio telescope, a team of Chinese researchers observed previously-unmapped regions of the Milky Way and made some groundbreaking discoveries!

Game of Probes: The First Probe Sent to Another Civilization Won't Be the First to Arrive

By Evan Gough - January 12, 2023 04:08 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Will Pluto finally answer, 'Are we alone?'

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 11, 2023 11:14 PM UTC | Astrobiology

"To Boldy Go": The Nichelle Nichols Foundation Continues Actress' Legacy of Inspiration

By Matthew Williams - January 11, 2023 09:07 PM UTC | Space Policy

In honor of her achievements, the Nichelle Nichols Foundation launched with the aim of carrying on her legacy and inspiring the next generation of women and minorities to go to space.