Universe Today (Page 71)

New Images Reveal the Magnetic Fields in the Horsehead Nebula

By Matthew Williams - May 12, 2023 03:30 PM UTC | Stars

A high-school student and an international team of astronomers created the first-ever map of the Horsehead Nebula's magnetic field.

It Took Five Years and A Million Images to Make this Atlas of Stellar Nurseries

By Evan Gough - May 12, 2023 12:22 PM UTC | Stars

Dark Matter Can Make Dark Atoms

By Paul Sutter - May 12, 2023 07:13 AM UTC | Physics

China Has its Own Secret Space Plane, and it Just Landed

By Matthew Williams - May 11, 2023 05:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China's mysterious experimental spaceplane (Shenlong) just returned to Earth after spending 276 days in orbit.

Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago

By Evan Gough - May 11, 2023 05:24 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Webb Examined an Asteroid Belt and Found More Than it Bargained For

By Evan Gough - May 10, 2023 03:25 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What if Titan Dragonfly had a Fusion Engine?

By Matthew Williams - May 10, 2023 01:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A team of Princeton scientists have shown how a Direct Fusion Drive could greatly enhance the Dragonfly's exploration efforts on Titan.

Meteorites Store a Magnetic Memory of the Early Solar System

By Brian Koberlein - May 10, 2023 01:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Magnets are a handy tool for finding meteorites, but they can also erase vital clues about the early solar system.

One in Ten Stars Ate a Jupiter (Or Bigger)

By Evan Gough - May 09, 2023 03:29 PM UTC | Stars

Building Planetary Systems That Could Last Forever

By Brian Koberlein - May 09, 2023 02:13 PM UTC | Exoplanets

An advanced civilization might use horseshoe orbits to bring their vacation spots closer to home.

NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 09, 2023 11:38 AM UTC | Astrobiology

Chasing SpaceX: The Commercial Space Race Gets a Reality Check

By Alan Boyle - May 08, 2023 08:44 PM UTC | Space Policy

We Can Only Bring 30 Samples of Mars Back to Earth. How Do We Decide?

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2023 07:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What Does the Milky Way Look Like?

By Matthew Williams - May 08, 2023 03:55 PM UTC | Milky Way

A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology.

JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang

By Brian Koberlein - May 08, 2023 02:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't disprove the big bang.

LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There's a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful

By Matthew Williams - May 08, 2023 01:56 PM UTC | Telescopes

A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave astronomy!

Astronomers Watch a Star Gulp Down One of its Planets

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2023 01:54 PM UTC | Stars

JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity

By kuingul-gmail - May 07, 2023 09:16 PM UTC | Stars

China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator

By Matthew Williams - May 07, 2023 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Before going into hibernation, China's Zhurong rover found evidence that water recently existed in small patches on Mars (and might still!)

A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 07, 2023 12:30 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Watch a SpaceX Fairing's Fiery Re-Entry Through the Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - May 06, 2023 02:22 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Thirsty on the Moon? Just Throw Some Regolith in the Microwave

By Brian Koberlein - May 06, 2023 10:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Lunar colonists may use microwaves to extract water from the Moon's surface.

Newborn Star Surrounded By Planet-Forming Disks at Different Angles

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 05, 2023 09:04 PM UTC | Stars

Solar Flares Could Have Helped Life Get Started on Earth

By Evan Gough - May 04, 2023 05:48 PM UTC | Astrobiology

It's Surprisingly Easy to Hurl Rocks From Mars Into Space

By Nancy Atkinson - May 04, 2023 05:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Dark Energy Was Always Present, Everywhere and at Every Time

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 04, 2023 12:38 AM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers are Starting to Find the Wreckage Left Over from the First Stars in the Universe

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 03, 2023 06:33 PM UTC | Stars

Is This Nearby Asteroid a Chunk of the Moon?

By Evan Gough - May 03, 2023 05:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Gravitational Lensing is Helping to Nail Down Dark Matter

By Matthew Williams - May 03, 2023 04:26 PM UTC | Cosmology

Using gravitational lenses, a team of astronomers showed how axions could be the particle that makes up Dark Matter.

Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination

By Brian Koberlein - May 03, 2023 03:31 PM UTC | Black Holes

Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are.

May 5th's 'Teaser' Lunar Eclipse

By David Dickinson - May 03, 2023 01:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A 'barely there' lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening.

JWST Tries to Untangle the Signals of Water. Is it Coming From the Planet or the Star?

By Matthew Williams - May 03, 2023 12:27 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Using Webb, a team of scientists may have detected water vapor in a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere (though the signal may have come from the star).

Even if There's Life on TRAPPIST-1, We Probably Can't Detect it

By Brian Koberlein - May 03, 2023 10:08 AM UTC | Astrobiology

ESA Can't Deploy JUICE's Radar Antenna. It Needs It to Scan Under the Ice at Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 02, 2023 11:02 PM UTC | Missions

Gaze at a Nearby Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole

By Nancy Atkinson - May 02, 2023 08:59 PM UTC | Black Holes

Airbus Designs a Space Station With Artificial Gravity

By Matthew Williams - May 02, 2023 04:34 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Airbus just shard its design for the Airbus LOOP, a Multi-Purpose Orbital Module that could be used in future space stations and long-duration spacecraft.

We Can Now See Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 01, 2023 11:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science

China Finally Tells us What's Going on With its Mars Rover

By sjohnston - May 01, 2023 06:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Each Planetary Nebula is Unique. Why Do They Look So Different?

By Evan Gough - May 01, 2023 03:49 PM UTC | Stars

Aliens Could Map Earth From its Mobile Phone Towers

By Brian Koberlein - May 01, 2023 01:15 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Be Grateful the Sun Can't Produce Flares Like This

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - April 30, 2023 01:29 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Bizarre Exoplanet Breaks All the Orbital Rules

By Brian Koberlein - April 30, 2023 11:24 AM UTC | Exoplanets

A fluffy hot jupiter has an orbit that doesn't line up with the rotation of its star.

These Stars are Already Merging, but Their Future Will Be Catastrophic

By Brian Koberlein - April 29, 2023 11:01 AM UTC | Stars

Two stars are in the process of merging, but they will become black holes before they do.

China is Planning to Land Humans on the Moon by 2030 as Part of its Ambitious Lunar Agenda

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - April 28, 2023 01:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration