Universe Today (Page 142)

After a Challenging First Year on Mars, InSight Shows Us that Mars is Seismically Active

By Evan Gough - February 25, 2020 01:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Comet Y4 Atlas in Outburst: First Good Comet for 2020?

By David Dickinson - February 25, 2020 12:55 PM UTC | Observing

Good news: Though we've been going through a cometary dry spell as of late, we may have our first good naked eye comet for 2020: Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS.

A New Kind of Rocket that's Lightweight and Easier to Construct: a Rotating Detonating Engine. Unfortunately, it's Also Completely Unpredictable

By Matthew Williams - February 24, 2020 04:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new type of engine - known as the rotating detonation engine - could revolutionize rocketry and make space exploration more cost-effective

Who was Aristotle?

By Matthew Williams - February 23, 2020 10:19 PM UTC | Site News

In the history of science, few scholars have as much of an enduring influence as classical philosopher Aristotle, whose theories would become canon for almost 2000 years.

Solar Orbiter is Already Starting to Observe the Sun

By Matthew Williams - February 23, 2020 03:00 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data to mission controllers on Earth.

Dust Devils Have Left Dark Streaks All Over This Martian Crater

By Evan Gough - February 22, 2020 01:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Nutrient-Poor and Energy-Starved. How Life Might Survive at the Extremes in the Solar System

By Evan Gough - February 21, 2020 06:08 PM UTC | Astrobiology

How Interferometry Works, and Why it's so Powerful for Astronomy

By Brian Koberlein - February 21, 2020 02:25 PM UTC | Telescopes

Japan Is Sending a Lander to Phobos

By Nancy Atkinson - February 20, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Missions

SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens

By Matthew Williams - February 20, 2020 06:31 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive SETI survey in history, has just made its second release of data, and its once again the biggest ever made!

Both Stars in This Binary System Have Accretion Disks Around Them

By Evan Gough - February 20, 2020 05:03 PM UTC | Stars

Weekly Space Hangout: February 19, 2020 - John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic

By susie - February 19, 2020 07:01 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Salt Water Might Still be Able to Collect on the Surface of Mars a Few Days a Year

By Matthew Williams - February 19, 2020 05:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study from the PSI indicates that around Mars' equator, salt water could form on the surface for a few days out of the year.

ESA is Considering a Mission to Give Advanced Warnings of Solar Storms

By Evan Gough - February 19, 2020 05:22 PM UTC | Missions

A New Technique to Make Lighter Radiation Shielding For Spacecraft: Rust.

By Matthew Williams - February 19, 2020 03:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new technique for creating lighter and cheaper radiation shielding involves a secret ingredient: rust!

There Could be Meteors Traveling at a Fraction of the Speed of Light When They Hit the Atmosphere

By Matthew Williams - February 18, 2020 02:23 PM UTC | Physics

According to a new study by a pair of Harvard astrophysicists, it is possible that meteors traveling close to the speed of light regularly rain down on Earth's atmosphere

Carnival of Space #651

By susie - February 17, 2020 05:25 PM UTC | Site News

War of the Worlds: Watch the Moon Occult Mars Tuesday Morning

By David Dickinson - February 17, 2020 01:21 PM UTC | Observing

Happen to have clear skies tomorrow morning and live in the western part of the United States? Then you may have a chance to spy a unique event, as the waning crescent Moon occults (passes in front of) the planet Mars.

Betelgeuse Is Still Dimming! And We Have the Pictures to Prove It

By Fraser Cain - February 16, 2020 04:51 PM UTC | Stars

Beautiful Exposed Bedrock and Sand Dunes on Mars

By Evan Gough - February 13, 2020 06:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Simulated How the Universe Would Look Without Dark Matter

By Matthew Williams - February 13, 2020 05:22 PM UTC | Cosmology

A team of European researchers recently simulated how a Universe without Dark Matter would have evolved, with surprising results!

Mars Was Hit By a Lot of Protoplanets Early in its History, Taking Longer to Form than Previously Thought.

By Evan Gough - February 13, 2020 05:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Pale Blue Dot: Now New and Improved

By Nancy Atkinson - February 13, 2020 03:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Catch Comet T2 PanSTARRS This Spring

By David Dickinson - February 13, 2020 11:18 AM UTC | Observing

Ready for the next great comet? First, the bad news. there is not (as of yet), a good naked eye comet in the cards, for 2020. The good news is… there is a fine binocular comet well placed for northern hemisphere viewers: Comet C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS.

A Rare Fast Radio Burst has been Found that Actually Repeats Every 16 Days

By Evan Gough - February 12, 2020 06:19 PM UTC | Extragalactic

New Images of the "Golf Ball" Asteroid Pallas

By Matthew Williams - February 12, 2020 05:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New images of the asteroid Pallas (the clearest and most detailed to date) reveal that it looks like a "golf ball", an indication that it probably had a very violent past.

Weekly Space Hangout: February 12, 2020 - Mapping Pulsars with Dr. Cole Miller

By susie - February 12, 2020 04:34 PM UTC | Missions

Carnival of Space #650

By susie - February 12, 2020 04:02 PM UTC | Site News

Here are the First Pictures from CHEOPS

By Evan Gough - February 12, 2020 02:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Mars 2020 Will be The Third Time That NASA Has Tried to Send a Microphone to Mars

By Matthew Williams - February 11, 2020 09:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Mars 2020 rover, which will launch this summer, will be the third NASA mission to bring a microphone to the Red Planet.

SpaceX is Thinking of Spinning Off Starlink and Taking it Public

By Matthew Williams - February 11, 2020 01:43 PM UTC | Space Policy

SpaceX recently announced that it could be taking Starlink public, giving investors a chance to get a piece of this lucrative satellite internet company.

The ESA's Solar Orbiter, a Mission That Will Chart the Unexplored Polar Regions of the Sun, Just Launched!

By Matthew Williams - February 10, 2020 08:41 PM UTC | Missions

The ESA's Solar Orbiter launched earlier today on its five-year mission to study the Sun, which scientists hope will lead to a better understanding of solar weather.

SpaceX Has Requested Permission to Fly Starship as Early as March

By Matthew Williams - February 06, 2020 08:08 PM UTC | Space Policy

According to recent filings with the FCC, SpaceX hopes to conduct their first test flight with the Starship Mk 3 prototype as early as mid-March of 2020.