Universe Today (Page 330)

Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane

By Matthew Williams - January 22, 2021 04:53 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near future.

The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 03:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Only 31 Magnetars Have Ever Been Discovered. This one is Extra Strange. It's Also a Pulsar

By Andy Tomaswick - January 22, 2021 02:58 PM UTC | Stars

The One Place on the Space Station Astronauts Aren't Supposed to Clean

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 12:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs

By Brian Koberlein - January 21, 2021 05:51 PM UTC | Stars

Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break that limit for a time.

Mars has Been Through Many Ice Ages in the Last Billion Years

By Evan Gough - January 21, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System

By Matthew Williams - January 20, 2021 10:32 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal from the inventor of the E-sail shows how we could create an Earth-like space habitat around Ceres, which could be a gateway to the rest of the Solar System

New Drones for Exploring Mars are Getting Tested in Iceland

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2021 04:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers Confirm That Darksat is About Half as Bright as an Unpainted Starlink

By Ralph Crewe - January 19, 2021 08:33 PM UTC | Space Policy

This is a Simulation of the Interstellar Medium Flowing Like Smoke Throughout the Milky Way

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2021 03:12 PM UTC | Milky Way

What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes When Galaxies Collide?

By Andy Tomaswick - January 19, 2021 02:58 PM UTC | Extragalactic

The Solar Wind is More Attracted to the Earth's North Pole Than the South. Why?

By Andy Tomaswick - January 19, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The Magnetic Fields Swirling Within the Whirlpool Galaxy

By Andy Tomaswick - January 18, 2021 08:52 PM UTC | Extragalactic

The First Cubesat With a Hall-Effect Thruster has Gone to Space

By Andy Tomaswick - January 18, 2021 08:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Planets are Finally Being Discovered Orbiting Farther From Their Stars

By Brian Koberlein - January 18, 2021 04:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets

We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn.

Here's the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope

By Nancy Atkinson - January 18, 2021 01:22 PM UTC | Telescopes

A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any Propellant

By Andy Tomaswick - January 17, 2021 11:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

This is What the Sun Looked Like for Every Day in 2020

By Andy Tomaswick - January 17, 2021 10:50 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

According to the Math, it's Highly Unlikely That an Intelligent Civilization is Located at Alpha Centauri

By Matthew Williams - January 17, 2021 09:34 PM UTC | Astrobiology

In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial signal - and the results are not good!

SLS Hot Fire Test Should Have Lasted 8 Minutes, Not 1

By Matthew Williams - January 16, 2021 08:15 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA accomplished a major milestone today when it conducted a Hot Fire Test of the SLS Core Stage, firing all four of its engines at once.