Universe Today
Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
The New Asteroid Moon Discovered by Lucy Just Got its Own Name
Not Getting Enough Data From Mars? Set Up A Solar System Pony Express
A Gamma-ray Burst Disturbed the Earth's Ionosphere
Should We Send Humans to Venus?
Odyssey Gives Us a Cool New View of Mars
We Should Hit Peak Solar Activity Next Year
It Doesn't Take Much to Get Tilted Planets
A Protoplanetary Disc Has Been Found... in Another Galaxy!
There are Mysterious Polygons Beneath the Surface of Mars
Contact Binary Asteroids are Common, but We've Never Seen One Form. So Let's Make One
China's Space Station, Seen from Orbit
A Detailed Design for a Space Station at Sun-Earth L2
The Solar Radius Might Be Slightly Smaller Than We Thought
Two astronomers use a pioneering method to suggest that the size of our Sun and the solar radius may be due revision.
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Titan Dragonfly is Go!.... for Phase C
Telescopes Didn't Always Play Nicely with Each Other. That's About to Change
A Tiny Quadcopter Could Gather Rocks for China's Sample Return Mission
JWST Reveals a Newly-Forming Double Protostar
Why Don't We See Robotic Civilizations Rapidly Expanding Across the Universe?
The Second Most Energetic Cosmic Ray Ever Found
If Warp Drives are Impossible, Maybe Faster Than Light Communication is Still on the Table?
For its Next Trick, Gaia Could Help Detect Background Gravitational Waves in the Universe
Vampire Stars Get Help from a Third Star to Feed
Simulating a Piece of Space Junk
Aerocapture is a Free Lunch in Space Exploration
JWST Reveals Protoplanetary Disks in a Nearby Star Cluster
Apollo Samples Contain Hydrogen Hurled from the Sun
Next Generation Space Telescopes Could Use Deformable Mirrors to Image Earth-Sized Worlds
NASA and its commercial partners are working on deformable mirrors (DM) that will allow next-generation telescopes to directly observe exoplanets.
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The Early Universe Had No Problem Making Barred Spiral Galaxies
NASA Tests its Next-Generation Mars Helicopter Blades
Where are All the Double Planets?
Ariane 6 Fires its Engines, Simulating a Flight to Space
The ESA recently conducted a test fire of its next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, a dress rehearsal for its first test flight next year.
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Dark Matter Could Help Solve the Final Parsec Problem of Black Holes
One outstanding mystery in astrophysics is known as the "final parsec problem." Simulations predict that binary black holes should stall out in the last stages of their merger. Since we're detecting the gravitational waves from these mergers, we know it happens, but how? A new paper proposes that ultralight dark matter near the black holes could help to carry away orbital energy from the black holes, driving them together.
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Vera Rubin Will Find Binary Supermassive Black Holes. Here's How.
How NASA Keeps Ingenuity Going After More than 50 Flights
The First Color Pictures From Euclid
There are Ideal Orbits for Space-Based Interferometers
Adolescent Galaxies are Incandescent and Contain Unexpected Elements
NASA is Getting the Plutonium it Needs for Future Missions
The Department of Energy just delivered a shipment plutonium that NASA will turn into radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) for future missions.
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There Aren't Many Galaxies Like The Milky Way Nearby. Now We Know Why
There Were Glaciers... on Mercury?
What's Going on With the Mars Sample Return Mission?
Wow. JWST Just Found Methane in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Webb's Infrared Eye Reveals the Heart of the Milky Way
A Galaxy Seen When the Universe was Only 332 Million Years Old
In the Shadow of Saturn's Rings
JWST Peers into the Atmosphere of a Puffy, Fluffy Planet!
If You're Trying to Prevent an Asteroid Impact, the Technical and Political Challenges are Staggering
CERN Has Joined the Search for Dark Photons
Now that the Large Hadron Collider has measured the mass of the Higgs boson, physicists are trying to understand how these particles interact with the rest of the Universe. One theory is that decaying Higgs bosons could produce "dark photons," which would only live for about a tenth of a billionth of a second. That doesn't sound like much, but it's long enough to detect "displaced muons," a by-product of the decay that would indicate the presence of dark photons.
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A Chinese Booster (and Additional Secret Payload) Caused a Double Crater on the Moon
