Universe Today
Planet Formation Favors the Metal-Rich Inner Milky Way
Exoplanets Seen Falling Apart
Dynamically Stable Large Space Structures via Architected Metamaterials
Why The First Stars Couldn't Grow Forever
Black Hole Mergers Will Tell Us if the Universe Obeys Symmetry
At the largest scales, the Universe is expected to be isotropic and homogeneous. No matter where you go, things will look roughly the same, with no preference for rotation direction. Researchers have proposed a way to test this "mirror symmetry" hypothesis using the mergers of black holes. When black holes collide, they release gravitational waves that can be polarized, either right- or left-handed. After studying 47 mergers, they found that symmetry is preserved.
Continue reading
Ingenuity Measured Windspeeds on Mars During its Flights
Fast Radio Bursts Appear to Be Caused by Young Neutron Stars
Researchers Practice Searching for Life on Enceladus, in the Arctic Ocean
Who Will Build an Outpost on the Moon First?
There's More Than Just Gravity at Work in the Solar System
There are Places on Earth Which Could Have Life, but Don't. What Can We Learn?
A New Space Telescope is Giving Us New Insights Into Gamma Ray Bursts
The Einstein Probe is a collaboration between Europa and China and was designed to detect flashes of low-energy X-rays, so-called "soft X-rays." Recently, the Probe automatically detected a 17-minute-long flash in brightness, known as a fast X-ray transient. Other astronomers made follow-on observations and confirmed that it was a blast of radiation that happened when the Universe was just over a billion years old: a gamma-ray burst near the dawn of time.
Continue reading
A Marsquake Reveals Why Mars has Two Very Different Hemispheres
Vera Rubin Completes its Comprehensive System Tests
Could Ocean Worlds Support Life?
Even More Planets Were Hiding in Kepler's Fields
NASA is Testing Shape Memory Alloy Wheels
Astronomers Release a Huge Survey of Exocomet Belts
Life Would Struggle to Survive Near Wolf 359
Several Double Planetary Disks Found
Getting To Mars Quickly With Nuclear Electric Propulsion
A Fast Radio Burst Came From an Old, Dead Galaxy
Astronomers still aren't sure about the source of fast radio bursts, but they appear to come from newly formed neutron stars, with powerful magnetic fields that interact with their surroundings. Researchers were surprised to find a burst that came from the last place you'd expect to see a young neutron star: an ancient elliptical galaxy, which ran out of most of its star-forming gas and dust long ago. So, maybe fast radio bursts have something to do with older stars?
Continue reading
Tracing the Big Ideas that Led to Webb
Rubin Will Find Millions of Supernovae
Black Hole Jets Seen Forming in Real-Time
Hubble Shows Young Stars Shaping Their Surroundings in the Orion Nebula
What Will It Take To Reach Zero Space Debris?
Supersonic Winds Blowing on an Extreme Exoplanet
Astronomers have analyzed the atmosphere of WASP-127b and discovered that its windspeeds reach 33,000 km/h. This is the fastest jetstream that's ever been measured on a planet—over 10 times faster than Neptune's winds, which are the fastest in the Solar System. The winds go 6 times faster than the planet itself is rotating. One clue is the extremely low density of WASP-127b; it's bigger than Jupiter, but a fraction of its mass. It's also tidally locked to its star.
Continue reading
China's Chang'e 7 Will Include a Flag That Will 'Flap' on the Moon
A CNSA flag flying on the Moon. Credit: CGTN News screenshot.
Continue reading
Coronal Loops Flicker Right Before the Sun Unleashes Big Flares
Hot Jupiters Can Co-Exist with Other Planets
Two Lunar Landers are Off to the Moon
Curiosity Finds Ancient Wave Ripples on Mars
The Star-Forming Party Ended Early in Isolated Dwarf Galaxies
A Tether Covered in Solar Panels Could Boost the ISS's Orbit
Habitable Worlds Could Have Formed Before the First Galaxies
Hubble Takes a 2.5 Gigapixel Image of Andromeda
Black Holes are Spinning Faster Than Expected
Webb Sees Light Echoes in a Supernova Remnant
NASA is Building a Space Telescope to Observe Exoplanet Atmospheres
New Glenn Reaches Orbit, but Doesn't Recover the Booster
Astronomers are Watching a Newly Forming Super Star Cluster
Sticks and Stones: The Molecular Clouds in the Heart of the Milky Way
Review: Dwarf Lab's New Dwarf 3 Smartscope
The Los Angeles Fires Got Extremely Close to NASA's JPL Facility
Dark Matter Can't Be Too Heavy
Space Itself May Have Created Galaxies
A Flexible, Adaptable Space Metamaterial
SpaceX Catches Booster But Loses Ship in Starship Test Flight
The Most Accurate View of the Milky Way
