Universe Today
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
