Universe Today
The Early Solar System Had a Gap Where the Asteroid Belt is Today
A map of River Beds on Titan for Dragonfly to Explore
I Could Look at James Webb Unboxing Pictures all Day
Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for launch on Dec. 18th!
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Uh oh, one of Lucy's Solar Arrays Hasn't Latched Properly
Meteorites Found With Little Pieces of Other Stars
There are 6x10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe
A new study based on Information Theory has produced the first estimate on just how much data is encoded in the cosmos (and it's a lot!)
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The Large Magellanic Cloud Stole one of its Globular Clusters
Lucy is off to Visit Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
Something Really Wants our Attention. One Object Released 1,652 Fast Radio Bursts in 47 Days
Researchers working with the 500-Meter FAST telescope in China reported 1,652 fast radio bursts in 47 days coming from a single source.
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What Are Your Options When you've Only Got Hours or Days to Prevent an Asteroid Impact?
With no Solid Surface, the Atmosphere of Jupiter Behaves Quite Differently Than Earth
Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Super-Jupiter
Gravitational Waves Reveal Surprising Secrets About Neutron Stars
What's Causing the Mysterious Radio Waves Coming From the Center of the Milky Way?
A Magnetic Tunnel Surrounds the Earth
Here's the View From Sweden During the Recent Solar Storm
Volcanism on the Moon Ended About 2 Billion Years ago
An international team examined lunar rocks brought back by the Chang'e-5 mission, and determined that volcanism ended on the Moon 2 billion years ago
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Why do Uranus and Neptune Have Magnetic Fields? Hot ice
This'll be us... in 5 Billion Years
A Spacecraft Could use Gravity to Prevent a Dangerous Asteroid Impact
Did Titan Give Saturn its Tilt?
William Shatner Completes his Trip to Space With Blue Origin
William Shatner and the crew of the Blue Origin NS-18 mission made it back to Earth safe and sound!
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Perseverance has Collected its First Sample of Mars and Prepared it for Return to Earth... Eventually
Rocky Planets Might Need to be the Right age to Support Life
In a new study, a team of Earth scientists shows how scientists could look for signs of a carbon-silicate cycle on exoplanets.
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Not Just Sitting Ducks. Maybe Satellites Could Dodge Almost all Space Junk
NASA's Mission to Visit 8 Asteroids, Lucy, Launches on October 16th
How to Prevent our Spacecraft From Contaminating Mars
A new report by the National Academies of Sciences highlights the importance of planetary protection for future missions destined for Mars.
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Why Visit Just one Moon When you Could Explore Them all?
The Biggest Comet Ever Seen Will get as Close as Saturn in 2031
China's FAST Telescope Could Detect Self-Replicating Alien Probes
Advanced Civilizations Could use Their Stars to Communicate (and as Telescopes)
Images of 42 of the Biggest Asteroids in the Solar System
You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage
LOFAR Sees Strange Radio Signals Hinting at Hidden Exoplanets
LOFAR sees 'exoplanet aurorae' near distant red dwarf suns.
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Webb has Arrived Safely at the Launch Site
Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time
BepiColombo's First Pictures of Mercury
Greenland's Ice Sheet is Similar in Many Ways to the Solar System's Icy Worlds and Can Teach Us How to Search for Life
The Astronauts who Would Have Tested Starliner Have Been Reassigned to an Upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
NASA has taken the two astronauts selected to test the Starliner and reassigned them to fly the fifth SpaceX Dragon mission to the ISS.
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'Glowing' Sand Dune Erosion on the Side of a Martian Crater
Rare Planet Found Orbiting Three Stars
James Webb's 30 Days of Terror
Gravitational-Wave Observatories Should be Able to Detect Primordial Black Hole Mergers, if They're out There
Wind Speeds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot are Picking up
Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect the First Stars When They Exploded as Supernovae
IBM Space Tech Wants to "Democratize Space" with ENDURANCE.
IBM Space Tech is launching Endurance, CubeSat mission that children from all over the world will be able to use to gain access to space!
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Early Massive Galaxies ran out of gas, Shutting Down Their Star Formation
This Object is Both an Asteroid and a Comet
Perseverance Sees Evidence of Flash Floods in Jezero Crater
Nancy Grace Roman Just Passed a Critical Design Review
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just completed it's Mission Critical Design Review, a major milestone on the road to the launch of this next-generation observatory!
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