Universe Today
JWST's MIRI Issues, Newborn Quasar, Detecting Exoplanets with Lagrange Points
The Moon's Poles Have "Wandered" Over Billions of Years
Astronomers tracked the Moon's poles over billions of years.
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Musk Suggests That Starship Will Probably Make an Orbital Flight in November
Space Diamonds are Even Harder Than Earth Diamonds
Webb Scans a Nearby Brown Dwarf and Finds it has Clouds Made of Sand
An international collaboration has used data from Webb to characterize a brown dwarf, and found clouds of sand in its atmosphere!
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There's a Blob of Gas Orbiting Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Axiom's Next Trip to the ISS Will Carry the First Saudi Woman in Space
The World's Ground Stations are Getting Ready to Watch a Spacecraft Crash Into an Asteroid Next Week!
On Monday, Sept. 26th, the DART mission will collide with an asteroid to test a method of planetary defense. The even will be hosted live around the world!
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Habitable Planets Will Most Likely be Cold, Dry "Pale Yellow Dots"
Webb Turns its Infrared Gaze on Mars
The first Webb images of Mars were just released by the ESA, revealing spectra from the planet's atmosphere and what Mars looks like in infrared light
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Neptune and Its Rings Glow in Webb Telescope's Portrait
It Appears That Enceladus is Even More Habitable Than we Thought
It takes a watery world to support life as we know it, but it also takes a special bit extra.
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Astronomy For Equity: Building Hope Through the Night Sky
Uh oh, There's a Problem With one of Webb's Science Instruments
InSight Heard Four Meteoroids Crash Into Mars
Should Low Earth Orbit be a protected environmental ecosystem?
Solar Orbiter Captures the First Ever Image of a Magnetic Solar Switchback on the Sun
A New Shepard Exploded. Fortunately, There Wasn't Anyone on Board
Astronomers Find a Sun-like Star Orbiting a Nearby Black Hole
Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a Sun-like star that co-orbits with a dormant black hole.
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Is Europe Building its Own Starship? Not Exactly
Mars Might Have Been Covered in Lakes in the Ancient Past
New research by an international team of scientists indicates that Mars may have had far more ancient lakes on its surface, which could have drastic implications for finding life.
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Satellites can now Measure the Thickness of Ice Sheets all Year Long
The First cry From a Brand new Baby Star
A new way to Discover Planets? Astronomers Detect an Exoplanet by Seeing its Trojan Belts
Astronomers demonstrate that you don't have to see a planet to discover it. You only need to see its Lagrange points.
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Blue Origin Explosion, CAPSTONE Problems, Space Diamonds
Can Astronomers Predict Which Stars Are About to Explode as Supernovae?
Saturn Might Have Torn a Moon Apart to Make its Rings
The History of the Sun is Written on the Moon
Hubble Sees a Spiral Galaxy With a Supermassive Black Hole Feasting at its Center
In a new image, Hubble provides a breathtaking view of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1961 that showcases its peculiar features.
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Without Water and Life, Geology on Mars is Driven by the Wind
Space Tourists Have Booked Their Next Private Mission to the International Space Station
Perseverance Has Collected Samples from One of the Best Places to Search for Ancient Life on Mars
A Galaxy With Ten Times the Mass of the Milky Way is Preparing to Become a Quasar
New research by an international team of scientists has revealed new insight into how rare, dusty galaxies evolved during the early Universe.
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Galactic Superwinds From Supernovae and Newly-Forming Stars Shape a Galaxy's Early Development
There Could be as Many Water Worlds as Earths in the Milky Way
A new study has examined all the rocky planets around red dwarf stars and determined that "water worlds" are as common as "Earth-like" rocky planets.
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Mars did Have Moving Glaciers, but They Behaved Differently in the Planet's Lower Gravity
New research shows that glaciers on Mars moved very slowly, which could have allowed ancient life there to survive.
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The Tonga Eruption Produced a 90-Meter Tsunami
Meet the New Vespera Telescope From Vaonis
The Vespera telescope offers power and portability in a deep-sky imaging package.
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Flying to (Hypothetical) Planet 9: Why visit it, how could we get there, and would it surprise us like Pluto?
On its Hunt for Dark Energy, a Telescope Stopped to Look at the Lobster Nebula
It takes a wide view to study dark energy, which also gives us a great look at some nebulae.
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Massive Stars don't Always Grow Their own Planets. Sometimes They Steal Them
Alien Artifacts Could Be Hidden Across the Solar System. Here's how we Could Search for Them.
Galactic Photobombing
Want to Stay Healthy in Space? Then you Want Artificial Gravity
A new study involving fruit flies aboard the ISS demonstrates the importance of artificial gravity for missions to deep-space.
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The Webb Image you've Been Waiting For: the Orion Nebula
Solar Orbiter was hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection as it was About to Make a Flyby of Venus
NASA Chooses a Supplier to Build its Moonwalking Spacesuits
It's Thought to Rain Diamonds on Uranus and Neptune, and now Scientists Duplicated it in the lab
If Jupiter's Orbit got Weirder, it Would Actually Make Earth More Habitable
Jupiter has helped sustain life on Earth, but it might have done a better job with a more eccentric orbit.
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AMAZING JWST Image, iPhone 14 and Satellites, Green Sand on Mars
