Universe Today
Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Started Out With Water Oceans, and Have Been Slowly Freezing Solid for Billions of Years
Another Starship Test Ends in an Explosion (Intentionally This Time)
At their Boca Chica test facility, SpaceX tested another Starship prototype (SN7) to the point of failure, which resulted in another explosive release of cryogenic liquid nitrogen.
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There's no evidence that dark matter interacts with any other force but gravity
Planets Form in Just a Few Hundred Thousand Years
A Repeating Fast Radio Burst Has Been Found. It Flares for 4 Days and then Remains Silent for 12 Days
Five hundred million light-years from Earth, there is a deeply unusual object. It is radio silent for 12 days, then erupts in bright radio bursts. We still aren't sure what the object is.
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Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July
Comet U6 Lemmon promises to be a fine binocular object at dusk.
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If You Could See in X-rays, This is What the Universe Would Look Like
Antares is a supergiant star that would fill the Solar System beyond Mars, but its atmosphere is 12 times bigger than that
A New Search for Evidence of Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and University of Rochester have come together (with NASA funding) to launch a new search for advanced alien life!
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Quasars are the Biggest Particle Accelerators in the Universe
There are Features on Titan That Really Look Like Volcanic Craters
A new study supported by the Cassini mission shows how the northern polar region of Titan could still be experiencing volcanic activity.
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Planets With Large Oceans are Probably Common in the Milky Way
A new study by a team of NASA scientists indicates that "ocean worlds," like those in our Solar System, could be very common in our Universe.
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Astronomers Estimate There Are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way
NASA Thinks it's Time to Return to Neptune With its Trident Mission
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a "Surprising Excess of Events"
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point toward proof of dark matter.
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Weekly Space Hangout: June 17, 2020 — Dana Backman, Director of NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors
ExoMars Sees the Martian Atmosphere Glowing Green
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) recently spotted a green glow in Mars' atmosphere, which is similar to what Earth's atmosphere experiences.
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Catch a Solstice 'Ring of Fire' Annular Solar Eclipse Over Africa and Asia This Weekend
Ready for the first solar eclipse of the year? This weekend sees one of the top draw astronomical events for 2020, with an annular solar eclipse spanning eastern Africa and Southern Asia on Sunday, June 21st.
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Searching for the End of the Universe's "Dark Age"
Why Pulsars Are So Bright
