Universe Today
When an Asteroid Gets Close to Earth, we get a Rare Opportunity to Learn What it's Made of
Falcon Heavy Launches for the First Time in Over Three Years, Carrying Military Satellites to Orbit
Just Four Robots Could Deploy a Huge Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
Edward Stone Has Been the Voyagers' Project Scientist for 50 Years. He Just Retired
When Should Robots Take Risks Exploring Other Worlds?
Researchers from the CMU's Robotic Institute have developed a new method that allows rovers to autonomously weigh risk against the potential for scientific research.
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In a New Hubble Image, Dark Matter Anchors the Giant Galaxy Cluster Abell 611
Did Supermassive Black Holes Collapse Directly out of Giant Clouds of gas? It Could Depend on Magnetic Fields
New research shows how the seeds of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) could have formed from gas clouds with amplified magnetic fields.
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Good News! The Ozone Hole is Continuing to Shrink
Mars Express Got so Close to Phobos That it Needed to be Reprogrammed to Keep the Moon in Focus
Too Many Supernovae Can Slow Star Formation in a Galaxy
Would Mark Watney Have Survived in Real Life, and What This Can Teach Us About Sending Humans to Mars
Will Enceladus finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
InSight Felt the Ground Shake From a Meteorite Impact on Mars
Another Reason Red Dwarfs Might Be Bad for Life: No Asteroid Belts
Another Version of the Pillars of Creation from Webb
Not Just Gold. Colliding Neutron Stars Forge Strontium, Lanthanum, and Cerium
Thanks to multi-messanger astronomy, we now know colliding neutron stars create more heavy elements beyond gold.
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Monster Black Hole Found Near Earth, Starlink Hacked, Early Life Killed Mars
The Most Devastating Solar Storms in History are Scoured Into Tree Rings
NASA Announces the Team who'll be Studying UFO Data. It's a Pretty Impressive List
NASA just announced the members of the independent study team that will recommend how the study of UAP can help the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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JWST Sees the Same Galaxy From Three Different Angles Thanks to a Gravitational Lens
The Webb Telescope can see distant galaxies incredibly well, even when they are gravitationally lensed by galactic clusters.
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NASA is Mapping Giant Clouds of Methane Released by "Super-Emitters" Across the World
Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life
There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.
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Earth's Hardiest Bacteria Could Survive Hundreds of Millions of Years Just Under the Surface of Mars
Dwarf Planet Haumea is one of the Stranger Objects in the Solar System. How did it get That way?
How to See the Bigger Picture From NASA's Webb Space Telescope
Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, And Maybe Even See Signs of Life
How Dangerous are Nearby Supernovae to Life on Earth?
Clearing the Air on a Trip to Mars: the NASA Particle Partition Challenge!
With $45,000 in prizes, NASA's Particle Partition Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to maintain breathable atmospheres for astronauts far from Earth.
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Occultation Chasers Nab the Shadow of Didymos, Post DART Impact
The Smallest, Lightest Neutron Star Ever Seen Could be a "Strange Star"
A neutron star lighter than the Sun could be a strange matter star.
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Lucy Took This Picture of Earth as it was Making its Gravity Assist Maneuver
Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery
Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield
NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space debris,
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Maybe We Don't See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here
Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision
The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won't Liftoff Until Late 2023
Lucy Zipped Past Earth to get a Gravitational Assist Towards Jupiter's Trojans
NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years
A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy
Scientists Find an Ancient Stellar Catalog Written by Hipparcus Hidden in a Medieval Tome
Spectral imaging reveals the Hipparchus astronomical catalog was much more precise than we thought.
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A Nearby Star Has Completely Blasted Away the Atmosphere From its Planet
Chandra's X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe
No More Big Rip, Pillars of Creation by JWST, Biggest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever
Will Mars finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
Astronomers Find a "Marshmallow World": the Lowest Density Gas Giant Ever Discovered
Mars Could Have Been Warm and wet, While Earth was Still a Glowing Ball of Molten Rock
New research suggests that when Earth was still a ball of molten rock, Mars may have been covered in warm, blue oceans!
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Early Life on Mars Might Have Wiped Out Life on Mars
NASA Just Ordered Three More Orion Capsules, for Artemis VI, VII, and VIII
Nitrous Oxide, aka "Laughing gas", Could be an Indication of Life in an Exoplanet
Why NASA Is Trying to Crash Land on Mars
