Universe Today (Page 328)

Did Jupiter Push Venus Into a Runaway Greenhouse?

By Andy Tomaswick - August 23, 2020 11:47 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?

By Matthew Williams - August 22, 2020 09:28 PM UTC | Astrobiology

In our latest installment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven't heard from aliens is because they've been wiped out by killer robots!

Lunar Landings Will Make it Harder to Study the Moon's Ice Deposits

By Matthew Williams - August 21, 2020 03:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study led by researchers from the JHUAPL indicates that future missions to the Moon could contaminate the lunar environment with their exhaust.

Could There Be Life in the Cloudtops of Venus?

By Nancy Atkinson - August 21, 2020 01:31 PM UTC | Astrobiology

NASA's New Video Shows You What it's Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light

By Matthew Williams - August 20, 2020 06:52 PM UTC | Physics

NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!

First Laser Space Debris Detection Made... in Daylight

By David Dickinson - August 20, 2020 10:34 AM UTC | Space Exploration

A new technique may prove to be a powerful tool in the battle to mitigate space debris.

The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star

By Matthew Williams - August 19, 2020 06:29 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost binary companion.

Could a tabletop experiment detect gravitational waves and determine the quantum nature of gravity?

By Brian Koberlein - August 19, 2020 05:50 PM UTC | Physics

A tabletop gravitational wave detector could take decades to build, but it could answer the most fundamental questions in physics.

This Distorted Circle is Actually a Galaxy That Looked Very Similar to the Milky Way, Shortly After the Big Bang

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2020 04:46 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago and were surprised to see that it looks a lot like how the Milky Way appears today.

Remembering Don Arabian, the 'Mad Genius' Behind NASA's Apollo Engineering Team

By Nancy Atkinson - August 18, 2020 12:50 PM UTC | Missions

Machine Learning Just Classified Over Half a Million Galaxies

By Andy Tomaswick - August 18, 2020 09:47 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Some Astronomers Think Betelgeuse Dimmed Because it "Sneezed". And it Might be Getting Ready to do it Again

By Matthew Williams - August 18, 2020 12:55 AM UTC | Stars

An international team of researchers has proposed a new explanation for why Betelgeuse has been mysteriously dimming, just as it started dimming again!

The Last Supernovae

By Brian Koberlein - August 17, 2020 11:30 AM UTC | Stars

The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos.

What's Possible When Earth and Space-based Telescopes Work Together?

By Andy Tomaswick - August 16, 2020 12:44 AM UTC | Telescopes

A Broken Cable Smashed Part of the Arecibo Observatory

By Matthew Williams - August 15, 2020 05:29 PM UTC | Observing

The iconic Arecibo Observatory recently suffered some damage when a support cable broke and created a large gash in the reflecting dish

Did Snowball Earth Happen Because of a Sudden Drop in Sunlight?

By Evan Gough - August 14, 2020 06:34 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Art Installation that Demonstrates How Dark Matter Bends Light with Gravity

By Matthew Williams - August 13, 2020 06:42 PM UTC | Cosmology

A new art installation at the Science Gallery Dublin, called "Dark Distortions," helps viewers to see the influence dark matter has on light in our Universe.