Universe Today (Page 147)

NASA is Testing a Rover That Could Search For Water Ice on The Moon

By Matthew Williams - October 29, 2019 10:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA has plans to send the VIPER rover to the South Pole of the Moon to look for water ice, in preparation for sending astronauts there in 2024.

Weekly Space Hangout: October 30, 2019 - Evelyn MacDonald on Finding Earth-Like Planets

By susie - October 29, 2019 04:33 PM UTC | Site News

X-37B Lands After 780 Days in Orbit Doing ???

By Evan Gough - October 29, 2019 01:40 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX is Sure They'll be Able to Land Starship on the Moon in 2022

By Matthew Williams - October 28, 2019 11:31 PM UTC | Space Exploration

As the president of SpaceX said at the 2019 IAC, the company hopes to conduct missions to the Moon by 2022, and to send people there by 2024

InSight's Heat Probe Has Bounced Back Out Of Its Hole

By Evan Gough - October 28, 2019 05:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers See the Wreckage from a Collision Between Exoplanets

By Evan Gough - October 28, 2019 04:28 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Breakthrough Listen and NASA Team Up to Look for Signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence!

By Matthew Williams - October 26, 2019 08:25 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Breakthrough Listen recently entered into a partnership with members of the NASA TESS mission team to search for aliens!

Skylon's SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test

By Matthew Williams - October 26, 2019 03:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Reaction Engines Ltd. recently passed a major milestone with the development of their SABRE engine, which could lead to spaceplanes that don't rely on rocket boosters.

New Horizons Team Pieces Together the Best Images They Have of Pluto's Far Side

By Evan Gough - October 25, 2019 05:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers See Strontium in the Kilonova Wreckage, Proof that Neutron Star Collisions Manufacture Heavy Elements in the Universe

By Evan Gough - October 24, 2019 05:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

Weekly Space Hangout: October 23, 2019 - Aileen Yingst: Space Geologist

By susie - October 23, 2019 08:53 PM UTC | Site News

A Private Company in China Plans to Launch Reusable Rockets by 2021

By Evan Gough - October 23, 2019 06:52 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Boeing and Airstream Show off Their New Astronaut Transport Vehicle: the Astrovan II

By Evan Gough - October 23, 2019 04:52 PM UTC | Missions

Elon Musk Tweets with Starlink. Services Could be Available Next Year.

By Matthew Williams - October 23, 2019 04:42 PM UTC | Space Policy

Starlink could be offering services by this time next year, and Musk just tested it by sending out the inaugural tweet (spoiler alert, it worked!)

James Webb Tests its Sun-Shield. So Far, So Good.

By Evan Gough - October 23, 2019 02:23 PM UTC | Telescopes

Did an Ancient Supernova Force Humans to Walk Upright?

By David Dickinson - October 23, 2019 11:26 AM UTC | Stars

Now that Many Countries Have the Ability to Destroy Satellites, the US is Figuring Out Ways to Make Them More Armored

By Matthew Williams - October 22, 2019 08:27 PM UTC | Space Policy

With all the advances made in anti-satellite technology, Sandia National Laboratories is seeking partnerships to develop satellites that can defend themselves

A NASA Panel Says We Don't Need to be so Careful About Infecting Other Worlds

By Evan Gough - October 22, 2019 04:18 PM UTC | Space Policy

Time-lapse Captured from the International Space Station

By Evan Gough - October 21, 2019 07:05 PM UTC | Space Exploration

How Long is a Day on Venus? Astronomers Make Their Best Measurement Yet

By Evan Gough - October 21, 2019 06:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Carnival of Space #634

By susie - October 21, 2019 02:42 PM UTC | Site News

Messier 93 - the NGC 2447 Open Star Cluster

By tammy-plotner - October 21, 2019 09:26 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Located about 3,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis is the open star cluster known as Messier 93.

The Most Massive Galaxies Spin More Than Twice as Fast as the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - October 19, 2019 06:54 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Based on new observations of super spiral galaxies, a team of scientists has found that they have massive dark matter halos that cause them to rotate much faster than our own!

Comets and Interstellar Objects Could be Exporting Earth Life Out into the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - October 19, 2019 03:37 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new study suggests that comets and asteroids that graze Earth's atmosphere might be responsible for the spread of life throughout the Universe.

Success! NASA Confirms the Mole is Working Again.

By Evan Gough - October 18, 2019 04:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

There's the Curiosity Rover, On the Move, Seen from Space

By Evan Gough - October 18, 2019 02:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What Was The First Color In The Universe?

By Brian Koberlein - October 18, 2019 02:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

Here's the Picture We've Been Waiting for. Hubble's Photo of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

By Evan Gough - October 17, 2019 06:25 PM UTC | Observing

An Army of Tiny Robots Could Assemble Huge Structures in Space

By Matthew Williams - October 17, 2019 06:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A team from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) recently unveiled their prototype for a new assembler robot, which could revolutionize construction as we know it!

NASA's New Lunar Spacesuit is Going to be a Lot More Comfortable for Astronauts

By Evan Gough - October 17, 2019 04:18 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX Files a Request to Launch Another 30,000 Satellites for Starlink, on Top of the 12,000 They're Already Planning to Launch

By Matthew Williams - October 16, 2019 05:16 PM UTC | Space Policy

According to recent filings, SpaceX is hoping to send an additional 30,000 Starlink satellites to orbit in the coming years.

Some Quasars Shine With the Light of Over a Trillion Stars

By Evan Gough - October 16, 2019 05:07 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Weekly Space Hangout: October 16, 2019 - Jeffrey Kargel Talks Climate Change on Earth and Beyond

By susie - October 16, 2019 02:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Engineer Has A Great Idea for a High-Speed Spacedrive. Too Bad it Violates the Laws of Physics

By Brian Koberlein - October 16, 2019 01:27 PM UTC | Physics

Planet Sizes Matter for Habitability Too.

By Evan Gough - October 15, 2019 07:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Robotic Spiders to Explore the Moon? Yes, Please!

By Matthew Williams - October 15, 2019 06:04 PM UTC | Missions

UK startup Spacebit is looking to democratize space with its Walking Rover mission, which will be the UK's first lunar mission and the first rover to rely on legs to get around!