Universe Today
The Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole Might be in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
Nature's Ultra-Rare Isotopes Can't Hide from this New Particle Accelerator
OK, Artemis. Now You're Just Showing Off. A Stunning View of the Moon Eclipsing Earth From the Orion Spacecraft
Gaze Slack-jawed at the Haunting Beauty of Galaxy NGC 1566, Captured by JWST, Processed by Judy Schmidt
What's Next for China's Lunar Exploration Plans?
Astronomers Spotted a Tiny Asteroid A Few Hours Before it Impacted the Earth, and Predicted Exactly Where and When it Would Crash
Based on the JWST Controversy, NASA is re-Evaluating the way it Names Spacecraft
In a surprise twist, NASA has suggested it will reexamine its naming policies, due to the controversy surrounding the JWST.
Continue reading
Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope Improvements
Air-Breathing ion Engines can Continuously Boost Spacecraft Anywhere There's an Atmosphere
Subaru Telescope can now Analyze 2,400 Galaxies Simultaneously
Why 'Contact' still resonates after 25 years
The First SLS Launch Caused Damage to the Launch Pad. How bad was it?
What Happened to those CubeSats that were Launched with Artemis I?
The Artemis I mission deployed ten CubeSat's as part of its mission, but only four appear to be operational.
Continue reading
If We're Going to Get Under the Ice on Europa, How Will We Send a Signal Back to the Surface?
Mars Once had Enough Water for a Planet-Wide Ocean 300 Meters Deep
New research has shown that Mars may have been covered in a worldwide ocean when Earth was still covered in molten lava.
Continue reading
What's the Best Mix of Oceans to Land for a Habitable Planet?
With JWST Fully Operational Again, we get Images Like This: Saturn's Moon Titan
The James Webb's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) is back online, and took a new image of Saturn's largest moon Titan!
Continue reading
A New Instrument Gives the Very Large Telescope an Even Sharper View of the Cosmos
NASA's Report Details a Dark Time in American History but Finds no Direct Evidence That Webb Fired People for Their Sexual Orientation
NASA has released its James Webb History Report, which explains why they are not changing the name of their flagship observatory.
Continue reading
JWST Detects Signs of Active Chemistry and Clouds in the Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-39 b
The Milky Way's Stellar Halo Isn't a Sphere After All
Volcanoes are the worst. They've caused extinctions on Earth, and probably killed Venus
A Mission to Venus Could Sample its Atmosphere Directly, Searching for Life
Hubble Sees a Dense Cloud of Gas and Dust That's About to Become a Star
Artemis I has Completed its First Flyby of the Moon
Einstein's Predictions for Gravity Have Been Tested at the Largest Possible Scale
A new study by an international team indicates that either Einstein was wrong, or something else has been driving cosmic expansion from the beginning.
Continue reading
Scroll Through the Universe with This Cool Interactive Map
Many Next-Generation Telescopes are Carried on Balloons. Here's What the Next Decade Holds in Balloon Astronomy
Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane, JWST Protection Plan
Perseverance has Found a Nice Patch of Sandstone on Mars
Andromeda Contains the Remnants of a Recent "Feeding Event"
BlueWalker-3 Unfolds, Brightens One-Hundredfold
After months of waiting, we're getting our first good looks at a fully deployed BlueWalker-3 this coming weekend.
Continue reading
There's a Cloud of Space Debris Around Earth. Here's how we Could get a Better Picture of it
JAXA's Ambitious Mission to Phobos Will Even Have European-Built Rover
The Latest JWST Image Shows a Star in the Earliest Stage of Formation
NASA has a Plan to Minimize Future Micrometeoroid Impacts on JWST
Are We in for a Leonid Outburst Friday Night?
The November Leonid meteors may produce a surprise outburst this weekend.
Continue reading
Europe is Building a Communications Network Around the Moon
NASA's MAVEN Witnessed Auroras as Multiple Solar Storms Crashed into Mars
Artemis 1 Sends Back Snapshots of Earth as It Speeds Toward the Moon
The Future of Mars Exploration Belongs to Helicopters
Mapping the Interiors of Meteorites to Learn how Earth got its Water
Locked within meterorites could be the key to understanding the origin of Earth's oceans. A new scanning technique could show us how.
Continue reading
What Would Asteroid Mining do to the World's Economy?
A new study by a team of Chinese researchers examines the impact asteroid mining with have on global equity.
Continue reading
Artemis I is On Its Way to the Moon
The X-37B is Back After 908 Days in Orbit. What was it Doing up There? That's Classified
A White Dwarf is Surrounded by Torn-up Pieces of its Inner Planets and its Kuiper Belt
The Sun Could Hurl Powerful Storms at Earth From its Goofy Smile
New Observations Confirm That a Magnetar has a Solid Surface and No Atmosphere
Gamma-ray Bursts Don't Always Signal the Birth of a Black Hole, Sometimes It's Just a New Neutron Star
It'll be Tough to Stop an Asteroid at the Last Minute, but not Impossible
A team of satellite experts have designed a navigation system that could save Earth from a collision at the last minute.
Continue reading