Universe Today
Both Uranus and Neptune Have Really Bizarre Magnetic Fields
Young Stars can Evaporate Nearby Disks Before They can Form Planets
A new Method Simulates the Universe 1000 Times Faster
It's Official, Astronaut Bill Nelson is NASA's new Administrator
Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, Senator, and longtime advocate for space, was recently sworn in as the 14th Administrator of NASA
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Volcanoes on Mars Might Still be Active
Mars Helicopter Completes its 4th Flight. 117 Seconds of Airtime
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter just completed its fourth flight, once again setting records for extraterrestrial flight.
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We Could Detect Extraterrestrial Satellite Megaconstellations Within a few Hundred Light-Years
If an alien civilization has a Starlink-like constellation of satellites, we might be able to find them.
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What we've Learned About Venus From the Parker Solar Probe
One Full Year of Seismic Data Collected by Mars Insight Includes 500 Quakes
SpaceX's SN15 Starship Prototype Nails It!
On the fifth attempt, SpaceX nailed the high-altitude flight test with a Starship prototype! Onward and upward we go!
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Dark Matter Could Change the Temperature of Exoplanets, Allowing us to Detect it
If dark matter exists, it could make Jupiter-like exoplanets warmer than we expect.
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"Ain't like Dusting Crops!" How We'll Actually Navigate Interstellar Space
How Long is a Day on Venus? We Finally Know the Exact Answer
Using the radio-echo timing technique, a team of researchers have precisely measured the length of a day on Venus
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Dune Fields in Gale Crater Tell the Story of Mars' Shifting Climate Over Eons
New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way's Galactic Halo
Protests From Dynetics and Blue Origin put NASA's Lunar Lander Award to SpaceX on Hold
Due to protests filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics, NASA has called for a stop-work order on the SpaceX Human Landing System (HLS).
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Astronomers are Watching a gas Giant Grow, Right in Front of Their Eyes
Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions Could Finally Settle the Different Measurements Over the Expansion Rate of the Universe
Chinese Company Claims to be Working on a Starship-Like Rocket
According to a new animation, it appears that China is hoping to build a Starship of its own, one that can provide intercontinental flights for paying customers.
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Instead of Betelgeuse, Keep Your eye on AG Carinae, Another Star That's About to go Supernova
Breakthrough Listen Searched for Signals From Intelligent Civilizations Near the Center of the Milky Way
If there are aliens out there, they probably aren't in the central region of our galaxy.
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Are we Seeing a Star That Just got Spaghettified?
Mid-Latitude Glaciers on Mars Could Supply Water to Human Explorers
New research shows how a subsurface glacier in the Arcadia Planitia region of Mars would make an ideal landing site for a crewed mission.
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How Salty is Enceladus' Ocean Under the ice?
China Launches the Core Module of Its New Space Station
11-Sigma Detection of Dark Energy Comes From Measuring Over a Million Extremely Distant Galaxies
A new study confirms the existence of dark energy with stunning accuracy.
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Ingenuity Completes a Huge 50-Meter Flight on Mars
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter just completed its third test flight and set new records for traveling farther and faster than ever before.
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Stare Straight Down Into a Giant Storm on Jupiter
NASA is now Planning a Mission to go 1,000 AU From the Sun, Deep Into Interstellar Space
"Put LUCKY on My Tombstone." Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Dies at 90
Mars has the Right Conditions for Life Just Under the Surface
We Could Detect Alien Civilizations Through Their Interstellar Quantum Communication
A new study by SETI researcher Michael Hippke suggests that we look for advanced species by trying to spot signs of quantum communications
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Smallest, Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered is Only 1,500 Light-Years Away
A red giant star may have a black hole companion that is only three solar masses in size.
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A new Technique Could use Quasars to Directly Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe
The evolution of cosmic expansion could be measured by a new method using intensity correlation speckles.
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Animation Shows how Saturn's Rings Move at Different Speeds
Using data obtained by the Cassini probe, NASA Fellow Dr. James O'Donoghue created this stunning visual of Saturn's rings.
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A Recent Megaflare Shows that Proxima Centauri is not a Nice Place to Live
A new international research effort observed a massive solar flare from Proxima Centauri, which indicates (yet again) that its not a habitable system.
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Perseverance Successfully Extracts Oxygen From the Martian Atmosphere. About 10 Minutes of Breathing Time for an Astronaut
Giant Planet is Found at an Extreme Distance From its Star
Blue Origin's Latest New Shepard Flight is a Success, With Passengers Climbing on Board (and Getting off Again Before it Flew)
Blue Origin is once again feeling momentum after the latest successful flight of their New Shepard launch vehicle.
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New Horizons is Now 50 Astronomical Units Away From the Sun
Catch Comet R4 ATLAS as it Nears Earth
Time to catch comet C/2020 R4 ATLAS… while you can.
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What if Starship Didn't Do a Landing Burn at All?
Another 3D graphic artist has a proposal for Musk: to "catch" the Starship using a special launch tower, kind of like they want to do with the Super Heavy.
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One Idea to Explain Dark Matter - Ultralight Bosons - Fails the Test
A study of rotating black holes show that some spin so quickly because dark matter particles haven't slowed them down.
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Meteorites Hold Early Atmospheres From Across the Solar System
NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Astronauts on the Moon!
NASA has selected SpaceX to develop the Human Landing System (HLS) that will bring the "first woman and next man" to the Moon in 2024!
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This Is a Collapsed Pit on Mars, Not a Pimple
"You Wouldn't Believe What I Just Saw:" Ingenuity Helicopter Flies Successfully on Mars
Roman Space Telescope Will Also Find Rogue Black Holes
How Does Water go From Interstellar Clouds to Habitable Worlds?
Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment Finally Gives Particle Physicists a Hint of What Lies Beyond the Standard Model
The results of the first run of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab indicate that there could be physics beyond the Standard Model that we simply haven't seen yet!
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