Universe Today
Here's Webb's View of the Pillars of Creation
The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Flooded the World's Coastlines With a Catastrophic Tsunami
New research shows that in addition to killing the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub Impact caused a global tsunami 30,000 more powerful than anything we've ever seen!
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The Heaviest Element Ever Seen in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere: Barium
2.46 Billion Years ago, a day on Earth was Only 17 Hours and the Moon was Much Closer
Will Venus finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
Hubble Examines the Wreckage From the 2017 Kilonova
A team of astrophysicists examined the site of the 2017 kilonova explosion and observed a rapidly-spinning disk and relativistic jets.
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Remembering the Gutsy and Hilarious Apollo Astronaut Jim McDivitt
Scientists Discover a New Way Exoplanets Could Make Oxygen; Unfortunately, it Doesn't Require Life
Planet Formation Doesn't Have to be a Rush job After all
Arecibo Won't Be Rebuilt
Shortly Before They Collided, two Black Holes Tangled Spacetime up Into Knots
An international team led from Cardiff University has confirmed that black hole binaries experience precession.
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NASA is Hoping They can Break the Sound Barrier... Quietly
Astronomers Have Found More Than 30,000 Near-Earth Asteroids... so far
TESS has Resumed Normal Operations
NASA has announced that TESS is back online and resumed normal operations!
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Astronomers Think They Have a Warning Sign for When Massive Stars are About to Explode as Supernovae
A study of red supergiant supernovae suggests they become dim and red just before they day.
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Huge DART Success, JWST Sees Weird Rings, Moon's True Origin
If we Detect This gas on Other Planets, it's a Good Sign There's Life There
If Earth Were an Exoplanet, it Would Still be Tricky to Figure Out if There's Life Here
New Views of Ganymede and Europa From Earth's Most Powerful Telescope
SpaceIL's Beresheet 2 Lander Will try Growing Various Plants on the Moon
Mars Express Watched Deimos Pass in Front of Jupiter and its Moons
A new Launch Date for Artemis 1: November 14th ... at Night
A Black Hole Burps out Material, Years After Feasting on a Star
When observing a black hole that devoured a star three years earlier, an international team of astronomers noticed it "burping" material out at half the speed of light!
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Webb Sees Organic Molecules in the Hearts of Galaxies, Surprisingly Close to Active Supermassive Black Holes
Starship and Super Heavy are Stacked up Again. How Long Until They fly?
The Starship and Super Heavy are fully stacked for the first time in six months, which could mean an orbital test flight is imminent!
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America's First Space Tourist Signs Up for Moon Trip on SpaceX's Starship
SpinLaunch Completes its 10th Test, Hurling Payloads for NASA and Other Companies Into the air
SpinLaunch just completed its 10th test flight (and its first test with payloads), putting them a step closer to commercial launches.
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The Moon Might be One Large Chunk that was Blasted Off the Earth Billions of Years Ago
These Bizarre Concentric Rings in Space are Real, Not an Optical Illusion. New Data from JWST Explains What's Happening
Satellite View of Stromboli's New Eruption in Italy. You Can See a River of Lava Flowing to the Ocean
Phew, NASA's CAPSTONE is no Longer Tumbling in Space
If There are Shallow Lakes Under the Ice on Europa, Clipper Will Find Them
Success! DART Impact Shortened Asteroid's Orbit Time by 32 Minutes
NASA has Built a Collection of Instruments That Will Search for Life Inside Europa and Enceladus
Scientists at NASA JPL and Colorado University have created a new instrument for finding signs of life, called the Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS).
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Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Every 51 Minutes. This Can't End Well
A Migrating Moon Might Have Turned Uranus Over on its Side
China Launches First Solar Observatory ASO-S
China launches ASO-S, its first mission to explore the Sun.
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission is Finally out of Fuel After 8 Years of Science Operations
The Pacific Ocean Will be Gone in 300 Million Years as the World's Continents Drift and Combine
A new study determined that the world's next supercontinent, "Amasia," will form between two and three hundred million years.
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Thanks to Hayabusa 2's Samples, Scientists can Track the History of Ryugu Earlier in the History of the Solar System
Check out This Amazing Fly-through of a Futuristic Space Habitat
The Dark Energy Camera has Captured a Million Images, an Eighth of the Entire sky. Here are Some of its Best Pictures so far
The Dark Energy Survey recently released 15 images that showcase the types of objects it viewed during the six-year campaign.
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Ads Taking Over Night Sky, DART Aftermath, Best JWST Image
The Methane Released From the Damaged Nord Stream Pipeline is Visible From Space
The Moon is the Perfect Spot for Humanity's Offsite Backup
Webb and Hubble Work Together to Reveal This Spectacular Galaxy Pair -- and Several Bonuses!
Binary Stars Live Complicated Lives, Especially Near the End
A Solar Gravitational Lens Will be Humanity's Most Powerful Telescope. What are its Best Targets?
In the future, astronomers could use the Sun's gravity as a telescopic lens, and map the surfaces of nearby exoplanets.
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NASA had Been Designing Lunar Bases for Decades Before Armstrong First Set Foot on the Moon
Astronomers see Tantalizing Evidence for one of the First Stars to Form in the Universe
In a recent study, a team led by the University of Tokyo believe they have found remnant material of one of the first stars in our Universe.
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