Universe Today (Page 96)

A New Study Confirms That Gravity has Remained Constant for the Entire age of the Universe

By Matthew Williams - August 27, 2022 03:26 PM UTC | Cosmology

New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) have shown that the force of gravity has not changed in the past five billion years.

Astronomers Find a Waterworld Planet With Deep Oceans in the Habitable Zone

By Matthew Williams - August 26, 2022 07:51 PM UTC | Exoplanets

An international team of astronomers have found the best candidate for an "ocean world," an exoplanet covered in very deep oceans.

This Ice Cliff is One of the Few Places With Exposed Water ice in the Mid-Latitudes on Mars. It's Probably Tens of Millions of Years old

By Nancy Atkinson - August 26, 2022 11:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Here is Where Astronauts Might Land on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - August 25, 2022 06:05 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA has released a map that shows the thirteen possible locations where the Artemis III astronauts could land!

Carbon Monoxide is Plentiful in Nebulae, but Then Disappears When Planets Form. Now we Know Where it Goes!

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 25, 2022 04:56 PM UTC | Exoplanets

JWST Finds a Clear, Unambiguous Signal for Carbon Dioxide in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - August 25, 2022 12:34 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Godspeed, Uhura: A Bit of Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Will Go to Space

By Alan Boyle - August 25, 2022 09:00 AM UTC | Space Exploration

New Horizons Could Still Have More Adventures Ahead

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 24, 2022 10:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Want to Live on Mars? Here's Where the Water is

By Matthew Williams - August 24, 2022 04:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science

By combining data from the Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of researchers has produced a map of Mars that shows where the water is!

Colliding Black Holes Provide Another way to Measure Distance in the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - August 24, 2022 12:00 PM UTC | Black Holes

Astronomers can use the gravitational waves of merging black holes to measure cosmic expansion.

Astronauts Going to Mars Will Receive Many Lifetimes Worth of Radiation

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 24, 2022 08:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 23, 2022 04:10 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Gaze Into the Heart of NGC 1365, Captured by Webb

By Matthew Williams - August 23, 2022 02:39 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Firefly, Northrop Grumman to Redesign Antares

By David Dickinson - August 23, 2022 01:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Northrop Grumman will partner with startup Firefly Aerospace, to continue sending cargo to the International Space Station.

Rare "Red Sprites" Seen From ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile

By Nancy Atkinson - August 23, 2022 09:59 AM UTC | Observing

The Latest Webb Observations Don't Disprove The Big Bang, But They Are Interesting

By Brian Koberlein - August 23, 2022 09:31 AM UTC | Cosmology

New observations from the JWST don't disprove the big bang any more than Hubble did.

Webb Telescope Sees Jupiter and Its Auroras in a New Light

By Alan Boyle - August 22, 2022 04:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Gravitational Waves Will Give Astronomers a new way to Look Inside Neutron Stars

By Brian Koberlein - August 22, 2022 12:46 PM UTC | Physics

Astronomers can use gravitational wave data to study the interiors of neutron stars, thanks to new gravitational wave models.

How Weak Will Astronauts Feel When They First set Foot on Mars After Months in Space?

By Matthew Williams - August 21, 2022 05:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new mathematical model can simulate if astronauts will be operate in Martian gravity after months of flying through space.

Were Phobos and Deimos Once a Single Martian Moon That Split up? Not Likely, says New Study

By Matthew Williams - August 21, 2022 04:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study has cast doubt on the theory that Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were once a single moon that split apart.

Another of the Lucy Mission's Asteroids has a Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 12:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars and Moon Dust can be Turned Into Geopolymer Cement. Good Enough for Landing Pads and Other Structures

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 11:46 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars InSight Doesn't Find any Water ice Within 300 Meters Under its Feet

By Andy Tomaswick - August 21, 2022 11:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science

The First Crops on Mars Should be Alfalfa and Cyanobacteria. Then Comes Tastier Plants

By sjohnston - August 20, 2022 07:27 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new way to Make Oxygen on Mars: Using Plasma

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 06:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New Pics of Phobos From China's Tianwen-1 Orbiter

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 05:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Not Just a Planet Hunter. TESS Found Over 25,000 Flaring Stars

By Andy Tomaswick - August 20, 2022 05:32 PM UTC | Stars

Artemis Astronauts Could Rely on Solar Cells Made out of Moon Dust

By Matthew Williams - August 20, 2022 02:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Researchers from TalTech have devised a cost-effective method for producing lightweight, flexible solar cells on the Moon!

Largest JWST Image, First Private Interplanetary Mission, Space Bubbles VS Climate Change

By kuingul-gmail - August 20, 2022 07:17 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers Have Revealed a Black Hole's Photon Ring for the First Time

By Brian Koberlein - August 19, 2022 03:25 PM UTC | Black Holes

Using data from the Event Horizon Telescope, a team of astronomers have calculated the photon ring of M87*.

Has JWST Found Proto-Globular Clusters?

By Paul Sutter - August 19, 2022 12:50 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Ancient Coin Discovery With An Astronomical Mystery

By David Dickinson - August 19, 2022 08:37 AM UTC | Site News

What does the Roman coin found recently off the shores of Israel depict?

Lucy's Solar Array is Fixed! (Mostly)

By Paul Sutter - August 18, 2022 11:50 PM UTC | Missions

Ukraine Crowdfunded a $17M Reconnaissance SAR Satellite

By kuingul-gmail - August 18, 2022 09:48 PM UTC | Space Policy

What is the Maximum Number of Moons that Earth Could Have?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 18, 2022 09:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Cyanobacteria Will be our Best Partner for Living on Mars

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2022 07:36 PM UTC | Astrobiology

An international team of researchers has found a strain of cyanobacteria that could produce biomass on Mars and grow food for astronauts!

A New Image From Webb Shows Galaxy NGC 1365, Known to Have an Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2022 02:02 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new James Webb image shows the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy in stunning detail!

One Exciting way to Find Planets: Detect the Signals From Their Magnetospheres

By Brian Koberlein - August 16, 2022 11:29 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Some exoplanets could be discovered by tuning into their radio transmissions.

JWST's Science, Surgeon Robot for ISS, Booster 7 Test Fire

By kuingul-gmail - August 14, 2022 08:56 AM UTC | Missions

MIT Researchers Propose Space Bubbles to Stop Climate Change

By Paul Sutter - August 13, 2022 10:38 PM UTC | Space Policy