Universe Today
Hayabusa 2's Sample is Landing on Earth December 6th
A new measurement puts the Sun 2,000 light-years closer to the center of the Milky Way
Ultra-precise measurements of stars in our galaxy put us closer to galactic center than we thought.
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Figuring Out How To Breathe the Moon's Regolith
Polarized light from the cosmic background hints at new physics
Distant light from the big bang is twisted as it travels to us. This could mean dark matter is more exotic than we thought.
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One of These Pictures Is the Brain, the Other is the Universe. Can You Tell Which is Which?
Neutrinos prove the Sun is doing a second kind of fusion in its core
Astronomers have detected a fusion cycle in our Sun that powers massive stars and creates the elements central to life in the cosmos.
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A third of the stars in the Milky Way came from a single merger 10 billion years ago
ESA Is Going To Spend $102 Million To Remove a Single Piece of Space Junk
There's Fabric on the Space Station That Scientists Are Using to "Listen" for Space Dust Impacts
A new way to map out dark matter is 10 times more precise than the previous-best method
Every Year NASA Simulates Our View of the Moon for the Upcoming 12 Months. Here's 2021, Hour by Hour
Geysers on Europa might come from pockets of water under the ice
The Moon has Resources, but Not Enough to Go Around
A new study led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains how the Moon may not have enough resources to support everything we plan to build up there.
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Astronomers See a Newly Forming Planetary Disk That's Continuing to Feed On Material from its Nebula
Weekly Space Hangout: November 25, 2020, Dr. Olivier Witasse, Project Scientist, the JUICE Mission
RocketLab Recovers a First-Stage Booster for the First Time: "Return to Sender"
A New Artist's Illustration of the Extremely Large Telescope. So Many Lasers
Catch Monday Morning's Subtle Lunar Eclipse
A penumbral lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of November 30th marks the start of the last eclipse season for 2020.
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Solar astronomers can now predict future sunspots. There should be a big one in a couple of days
Predicting the appearance of a sunspot is like predicting a tornado. But astronomers are starting to do it.
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China's Chang'e-5 Probe Is Off to Bring Back a Moon Sample — and NASA Hopes to See the Data
Here's what we know about Earth's new minimoon
At One Time, This Region of Mars was Inundated by a "Megaflood"
A new study of the Curiosity rover's data has show that the Gale Crater once experienced massive flooding, bolstering the case for past life on Mars.
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Hubble Sees Dark Shadows That Could Be Cast by a Supermassive Black Hole
One of the Building Blocks of Life Can Form in the Harsh Environment of Deep Space Itself. No Star Required
Mars Might Have Lost its Water Quickly
Gravitational lenses could be the key to measuring the expansion rate of the Universe
Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when gravitationally lensed.
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Arecibo's Damage is so Serious and Dangerous, They're Just Going to Scrap the Observatory Entirely
In the wake of a second structural failure, the NSF has announced that the iconic Arecibo Observatory will be decommissioned after 57 years of service.
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A High Resolution, Cross-Eyed Look at the Entire Surface of Mars
Scientists Have Re-Analyzed Their Data and Still See a Signal of Phosphine at Venus. Just Less of it
The team that detected phosphine in Venus' atmosphere has reexamined the data and confirmed their discovery, with a few caveats and addendums.
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The First Civilization We Contact Will Have Been Around Much Longer Than Humanity
A 100-Meter Rotating Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon? Yes Please.
A team from UT Austin has renewed a proposal for a liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon that could study the first stars in the Universe.
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Earth and the Moon Might Have Captured an Old Upper Stage Rocket
According to NASA, an object detected between the Earth and Moon could actually be the spent stage of a rocket booster from the early Space Age.
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There Might Be Water On All Rocky Planets
Weekly Space Hangout: November 18, 2020 – Dr. Ralph Lorenz, Planetary Scientist and Dragonfly Mission Architect
Some of the Milky Way's oldest stars aren't where they're expected to be
Some of the oldest stars in our galaxy have orbits similar to the Sun, and we don't know why
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Earth's toughest bacteria can survive unprotected in space for at least a year
An Iceberg the Size of South Georgia Island is on a Collision Course with... South Georgia Island
Past Supernovae Could be Written Into Tree Rings
A new study by CU Boulder geoscientist Robert Brakenridge shows how nearby supernovae could have disrupted Earth's climate in the past
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Astronomers think they've seen a magnetar form for the first time; the collision of two neutron stars
Astronomers have seen how two neutron stars created the brightest kilonova ever observed.
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The family tree of the Milky Way. The mergers that gave us the galaxy we see today
Fast radio bursts within the Milky Way seem to be coming from magnetars
A Record Close Shave: Asteroid 2020 VT4 Just Skimmed by Earth
Wow. A low-flying space rock set a record last Friday (appropriately, the 13th), when 2020 VT4 passed just under 400 kilometers (250 miles) over the Southern Pacific.
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Merging Black Holes and Neutron Stars. All the Gravitational Wave Events Seen So Far in One Picture
New Horizons Saw the Universe With Even Less Light Pollution than Hubble's View
A new study based on New Horizons data has conducted the most accurate measurements of the Universe's background light to date.
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There are Planets So Close to Their Stars That They Have Magma Oceans 100km Deep and Winds that Go 8000 km/h
SpaceX's Resilience Spacecraft has Lifted Off and is Headed for the ISS!
NASA and SpaceX have once again made history with the flight of the Crew-1 (Resilience) to the ISS, the first operational crew mission since the Space Shuttle was retired!
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What Role do Radioactive Elements Play in a Planet's Habitability?
According to new study by a team from UC Santa Cruz, the right amount of radioactive elements could also be crucial to habitability.
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The Average Temperature of the Universe has Been Getting Hotter and Hotter
A recent study by an international team of scientists shows that the Universe is getting hotter (not cooler) with time!
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Venus Held Onto its Water Surprisingly Well During its History
A new study by a Swedish astrophysicist shows that Venus is not likely to have lost its water to space, which raises new questions about how the planet became the hellhole it is today.
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Do neutron star collisions produce black holes?
A new study looks at how neutron stars can merge to create a black hole.
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