Universe Today
How Supersymmetry Saved String Theory
Using Smart Materials To Deploy A Dark Age Explorer
The Atmosphere of an Exoplanet Reveals Secrets About Its Surface
Astronomers have now characterized the atmospheres of several exoplanets, with JWST and upcoming missions promising to turn that into the thousands. The next era will come when our observatories can directly observe the surfaces of exoplanets. We're learning that the atmospheres of planets and their surfaces affect one another, and just by observing their atmospheres, we'll learn valuable secrets about the surfaces of those worlds.
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NASA Tightbeams a Cat Video From 31 Million Kilometers Away
Watch 14 Years of Gamma-Ray Observations in This Fascinating NASA Video
Questions Remain on Chinese Rocket That Created an Unusual Double Crater on the Moon
Holograms Might Save Physics
Ouch. Canadarm2 Took a Direct Hit From a Micrometeorite
Should We Send Humans to Titan?
Should We Be Preparing for First Contact?
Dream Chaser is Getting Tested at NASA
ESA is Stockpiling Simulated Regolith for the Ultimate Lunar Playground.
Lost In Space? Just Use Relativity
Webb Sees a Supernova Go Off in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy - for the Second Time
We Just had the Strongest Solar Flare in the Current Solar Cycle
It's Time for Saturn's "Spokes" to Return
Finally. A Productive Use for Nuclear Weapons: Asteroid Defense
Why the Universe Might be a Hologram
It Doesn't Take Much to Get a Runaway Greenhouse Effect
Enjoy the Holiday-Themed Christmas Tree Cluster
Astronomers Find the Birthplaces of Stars in the Whirlpool Galaxy
The Strangest Coincidence in Physics: The AdS/CFT Correspondence
A New View of Uranus' North Pole from JWST
Blue Origin's New Shepard Completes 24th Flight; New Glenn Hopefully on the Horizon
Can Webb Find the First Stars in the Universe?
Astronomers Find Two Planetary Systems Around Sun-Like Stars
A Radio Telescope on the Moon Could Help Us Understand the First 50 Million Years of the Universe
Why String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions
Millions of Satellites Could Have a Profound Effect on the Earth's Ionosphere
The Holographic Secret of Black Holes
Toxic Gas is Leaking out of Enceladus. It's also a Building Block of Life.
Astronomers Scan Hundreds of Stars for "Anomalous Transits"
Scientists are Recommending IceCube Should be Eight Times Bigger
Could There Be a Black Hole Inside the Sun?
Primordial black holes are one explanation for dark matter, although it's not widely accepted. These black holes would have formed at the beginning of the Universe and would be at least the mass of a medium-sized asteroid. These black holes may have fallen into the stars if they are out there. These low-mass black holes would emit Hawking radiation, contributing to the star's radiation pressure. Is there a way we could know if there's a black hole inside the Sun?
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Hubble Sees a Random Collection of Galaxies, Perfectly Lined Up
Photonic Crystals Could Be Exactly What Breakthrough Starshot is Looking For
17 Known Exoplanets Could Have Oceans of Liquid Water
What's the Source of Binary Rogue Planets?
Ancient Stars Could Make Elements With More Than 260 Nucleons
Elements heavier than iron, like gold or platinum, were created when massive stars died or through colliding neutron stars. Some of our heavy elements on Earth resulted from an even heavier element decaying through fission. Astronomers studied several stars and found elements that must have been formed through the death of previous generations of stars and the fission of their matter. Some of these elements would have been more than an atomic mass of 260.
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Weather in the Solar System Can Teach Us About Weather on Exoplanets
Trying to Communicate with Whales is Like Talking to Extraterrestrials
A Tiny Telescope is Revealing "Hot Jupiter" Secrets
Voyager 1 Has Another Problem With its Computer System
Breakthrough Listen Scans Entire Galaxies for Signals From Extremely Advanced Civilizations
Betelgeuse Versus the Asteroid... What Happened?
A rare occultation of the bright star Betelgeuse by asteroid 319 Leona turned up mixed results.
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Dark Matter Could Cause Jupiter's Night Side to Glow
DART Showed We Can Move an Asteroid. Can We Do It More Efficiently?
Entropy is the Key to a Planet's Habitability
Webb Finds Icy Complex Organic Molecules Around Protostars: Ethanol, Methane, Formaldehyde, Formic Acid and Much More
Hubble Returns to Science Operations
