Universe Today (Page 137)

Due to Weather Delay, NASA & SpaceX Push Historic Launch to Saturday

By Matthew Williams - May 29, 2020 06:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration

This Saturday, NASA and SpaceX will make their second attempt to send astronauts to the ISS from US soil for the first time since 2011!

Mars Doesn't Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here's a Map

By Evan Gough - May 29, 2020 06:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A New Kind of Supernova Explosion has been Discovered: Fast Blue Optical Transients

By Evan Gough - May 29, 2020 04:24 PM UTC | Stars

How to Make the Food and Water Mars-Bound Astronauts Will Need for Their Mission

By Matthew Williams - May 29, 2020 02:45 PM UTC | Space Exploration

New technologies are being developed that will ensure astronauts have plenty of drinking water and food wherever resupply missions are not readily available

Powerful Telescope Confirms There's an Earth-Sized World Orbiting Proxima Centauri

By Brian Koberlein - May 29, 2020 01:15 PM UTC | Exoplanets

There is an Earth-sized planet only four light years from Earth. Whether it has life is yet to be known.

On Mars, mud flows like lava

By Paul Sutter - May 29, 2020 12:59 PM UTC | Planetary Science

This Rocket Engine's Thrust Chamber was 3D-printed and Only has Three Parts

By Nancy Atkinson - May 29, 2020 12:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration

At cosmic distances, even the speed of light is really slow

By Paul Sutter - May 29, 2020 11:41 AM UTC | Cosmology

Weekly Space Hangout: May 27, 2020 — News Roundup

By nancygraz - May 28, 2020 04:39 PM UTC | Site News

Extremely Hot Exoplanets Can Have Extreme Weather, Like Clouds of Aluminum Oxide and Titanium Rain

By Evan Gough - May 28, 2020 02:31 PM UTC | Exoplanets

What Are Some Clues to the Climates of Exoplanets?

By Matthew Williams - May 27, 2020 09:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute have created a new model for assessing the habitability of exoplanets that orbit different types of stars

The Solar System Might Not Exist if There Wasn't a Huge Galactic Collision with the Milky Way Billions of Years Ago

By Evan Gough - May 27, 2020 05:35 PM UTC | Milky Way

A Massive Rotating Disc Discovered in the Early Universe

By Evan Gough - May 27, 2020 02:05 PM UTC | Cosmology

This Dwarf Galaxy is all by Itself

By Nancy Atkinson - May 27, 2020 12:00 PM UTC | Extragalactic

How Will we Receive Signals From Interstellar Probes, Like Starshot?

By Matthew Williams - May 26, 2020 09:17 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new study takes a look at the challenges of sending and receiving data over interstellar distances using tight-beam lasers

Spot SpaceX's Crew Dragon After This Weekend's Historic Launch

By David Dickinson - May 26, 2020 02:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration

How to see SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo One mission in orbit Wednesday night.

Tiny Cardboard Aircraft Could Fly in the Skies of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - May 26, 2020 02:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and SpaceX Gearing Up For Historic Crew Dragon Launch This Week

By Matthew Williams - May 26, 2020 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the Demo-2 mission this week, which will see the Crew Dragon launch from the Kennedy Space Center and rendezvous with the ISS.

The Coast of Antarctica is Starting to Turn Green

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 05:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

This is an Actual Image of a Planet-Forming Disc in a Distant Star System

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 02:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets

U.S. Space Force is Looking For a Place to Put its Headquarters

By Matthew Williams - May 24, 2020 04:34 PM UTC | Space Policy

The US Space Force has announced that it is looking for a place to establish its new HQ, and is encouraging communities across the US to nominate themselves based on a set of criteria.

Maybe a Fleet of Tiny Spacecraft Could Help Detect a Primordial Black Hole Planet 9

By Brian Koberlein - May 24, 2020 02:50 PM UTC | Black Holes

The SpaceX Starship Could Fly This Summer!

By Matthew Williams - May 22, 2020 10:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Despite an unexpected fire during the latest static fire test, SpaceX's Starship prototype is alive and well and closer to flight-testing.

OSIRIS-REx Will Collect a Sample from Bennu on October 20th

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 05:41 PM UTC | Missions

Ocean Circulation Might Be the Key to Finding Habitable Exoplanets

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 03:42 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Magnetic north is migrating towards Siberia. Here's why

By Paul Sutter - May 22, 2020 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Space Force is Starting to Train its Soldiers to Fight... in Space?

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Space Policy

The US Space Force just announced that they will begin training so its new officers can become specialists in specific fields, like orbital warfare, electronic warfare, and space battle management.

Weekly Space Hangout: May 20, 2020 — Dr. Sarah McAnulty from Skype A Scientist

By nancygraz - May 21, 2020 04:18 PM UTC | Site News

Astronomers Are Sure These Are Two Newborn Planets Orbiting a Distant Star

By Evan Gough - May 21, 2020 01:49 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns

By Paul Sutter - May 21, 2020 08:18 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA is Giving the SLS a "Green Run" to Prepare it for Launch in Late 2021

By Matthew Williams - May 20, 2020 08:39 PM UTC | Missions

Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have resumed tests of the Core Stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) in anticipation of its inaugural launch next year.

40 Years Ago, Mount St. Helens Blew its Top Off

By Evan Gough - May 20, 2020 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses Discovered to Help Study the Distant Universe

By Brian Koberlein - May 20, 2020 12:30 PM UTC | Cosmology

Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction

By David Dickinson - May 20, 2020 12:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What's that? You say you've never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won't have an excuse after this weekend, when the innermost world meets brilliant Venus at dusk, for one of the best planetary conjunctions for 2020.

NASA Proposes the Artemis Accords. The New Rules for Lunar Exploration

By Matthew Williams - May 19, 2020 05:58 PM UTC | Space Policy

NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords.

Space Force Launches its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane

By Matthew Williams - May 19, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The US Space Force, in conjunction with the USAF and the ULA, just launched the X-37B spaceplane for the sixth time!

This Laser Powered Rover Could Stay in the Shadows on the Moon and Continue to Explore

By Evan Gough - May 19, 2020 04:33 PM UTC | Missions

TESS is Also Helping Astronomers Study Bizarre Pulsating Stars

By Evan Gough - May 19, 2020 02:00 PM UTC | Stars

The Tunguska Explosion Could Have Been Caused By An Asteroid That Still Orbits The Sun

By Brian Koberlein - May 19, 2020 11:59 AM UTC | Planetary Science

If Rockets were Transparent: Video Shows You How Rockets Use up Their Propellant

By Nancy Atkinson - May 18, 2020 11:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Take a Peek Inside a Giant Star Right Before it Dies

By Paul Sutter - May 15, 2020 09:33 PM UTC | Stars

Earth Life Probably Can't Spread to Mars Today

By Matthew Williams - May 15, 2020 06:04 PM UTC | Astrobiology

New research says life from Earth isn't likely to ever survive on Mars, which is good news as far as planetary protection concerns are involved.

Was Betelgeuse Formed by Merging Stars?

By Evan Gough - May 15, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Stars

High Energy Neutrinos Are Coming From Supermassive Black Holes

By Brian Koberlein - May 15, 2020 02:54 PM UTC | Black Holes

Some neutrinos are so energetic we don't know how they are produced. But a clue lies in the heart of distant quasars.

James Webb is Fully Stowed Into its Launch Configuration

By Evan Gough - May 15, 2020 02:23 PM UTC | Telescopes

China's New Crew Capsule Just Landed, and so Did Parts of their New Rocket!

By Matthew Williams - May 15, 2020 02:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China's next-generation crewed spacecraft recently returned to Earth after a successful test flight. The Long March 5B rocket that sent it up did as well (parts of it, anyway!)

Finally! InSight's Mole is Making Slow and Steady Progress

By Evan Gough - May 13, 2020 08:03 PM UTC | Missions