Universe Today
In Wildly Different Environments, Stars End Up Roughly the Same
Primordial Black Holes Could Have Triggered the Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
Computer simulations show the role primordial black holes may have played in the early universe, but the process isn't clear cut.
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Why Betelgeuse Dimmed
Using data from Hubble and other observatories, a team of scientists have determine the cause of Betelgeuse's dimming - old age!
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Thanks to Gaia we Know Exactly how and When the Sun Will die
Observations from the Gaia spacecraft gives us a detailed picture of how the Sun will live and die.
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Starlink Satellites Are Still Bright
The new generation of Starlink satellites remain above the accepted brightness threshold.
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Impacts From Interstellar Objects Should Leave Very Distinct Craters
Here's a Sneak Preview of What It'll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide
The Youngest Exoplanet Ever Seen?
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have observed what could be the youngest exoplanet ever detected!
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Even a Cyclical Universe Needed to Come From Somewhere
The cyclic universe model proposes a universe with no beginning, but a new study shows it might need a beginning after all.
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SpaceX Super Heavy Fires Just one of its Engines. Imagine What it'll be Like When it Fires all 33
Musk just tweeted an image of the BN7 Super Heavy Booster successfully conducting a static fire test!
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Hazegrayart Shows how Rocket Lab's Reusable Neutron Rocket Could Work
A new animation shows what Rocket Lab's totally-reusable rocket will look like when it starts sending satellites to space.
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Astronomers Were Fortunate Enough to Catch a Neutron Star Merging With Another Star
Perseverance has Found a 'Cat Hair' in its Drill Chuck. What is it?
It's Been 10 Years Since Curiosity Landed on Mars, and the Rover is Still Going Strong
Gravitational Waves Near a Neutron Star Could Generate Photons
South Korea's First Orbital Mission to the Moon is on its Way
Astronomers List 88 Distant Galaxies They Want to Look at With JWST. Some Are Less Than 200 Million Years Old.
A Remote Surgical Robot is Going to the International Space Station
The Miniaturized In-vivo Robotic Assistant (MIRA) is getting ready to fly to the ISS and evaluate if robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) will work in space!
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Hubble can Still Impress and Inspire. Here's Globular Star Cluster NGC 6638
Will Europa finally answer, 'Are we alone?'
Watch OSIRIS-REx's Complex Orbital Path Around Bennu in This Cool Animation
Dwarf Galaxies Found Without Influence From Dark Matter
Interstellar Meteorite, Shortest Day Ever, Magnetosphere Collapse
Jupiter Missions Could Also Help Search for Dark Matter
I Asked an AI to Dream the Solar System as Food
Masten Space is Building a Lunar Lander for NASA. Also, They Just Filed for Bankruptcy
Masten Space Systems, which was developing a lunar lander for NASA's Artemis Program, has just filed for bankruptcy!
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NASA's Space Launch System Gets Tentative Launch Date of August 29th
Did you Want More Scientific Information About the First set of Images From JWST? Fill Your Boots
A new paper describes all the science that went into the James Webb Early Release Observations (ERO).
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The Tharsis Region of Mars is Peppered With These Strange Pit Craters. Now They've Been Found Elsewhere
An Interstellar Meteor Struck the Earth in 2014, and now Scientists Want to Search for it at the Bottom of the Ocean
Astronomers Measure the Signal of Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years ago
The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past.
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JWST Turns Its Gaze on the Cartwheel Galaxy
The Record for the Farthest Galaxy just got Broken Again, now just 250 million years after the Big Bang
K2 PanSTARRS Still a Fine Binocular Comet Through late 2022
A long anticipated comet puts on its best show through the end of 2022.
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Even Citizen Scientists are Getting Time on JWST
Stellar Flybys Leave a Permanent Mark on Newly Forming Planetary Systems
Planet 9 is Running out of Places to Hide
A search for Planet 9 found hundreds of potential candidates, but they are probably just clouds.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Almost Completely Collapsed 550 Million Years Ago
China's Long March Rocket Booster Makes Uncontrolled Reentry Back to Earth
ESA's EnVision Mission Doesn't Have a lot of Fuel, so it's Going to Aerobrake in the Atmosphere of Venus
Jupiter's Giant Moons Prevent it From Having Rings Like Saturn
A recent study examined why Jupiter doesn't have highly-visible (and beautiful) rings like Saturn, and puts the blame on its moons!
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When Stars eat Their Planets, the Carnage can be Seen Billions of Years Later
Lithium is the key to determining whether a star has eaten a planet.
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JWST Damage, New Mars Helicopters, Teaching Robots to Die
The Mars Sample Return Mission Will Take Two Helicopters to the Red Planet to Help Retrieve Samples
The James Webb is Measuring Distant Galaxies 5-10 Times Better Than any Other Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is enabling all kinds of next-generation astronomy, including producing accurate mass measurements of the most distant galaxies.
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A Black Hole can Tear a Neutron Star Apart in Less Than 2 Seconds
An international team has simulated what happens when a black hole and neutron star merge, and the results were pretty
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Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures Inside
A Fast-Moving Star is Colliding With Interstellar gas, Creating a Spectacular bow Shock
A star speeding through gas and dust has much to teach us about interstellar dynamics.
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Engineers are Testing how VIPER can Handle the Gnarliest Lunar Terrain
The Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Seen Got There by Feasting on its Companion
