Universe Today
Curiosity Sees Spectacular Crepuscular Rays in Martian Clouds
China's Rover Used Radar to Look Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars. What Did it Find?
2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: a Bright Comet for the End of 2024?
New Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may put on a show at the end of next year.
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TESS Shows That Even Small Stars Can Host Giant Planets
A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole
A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy, and concluded that it orbits a intermediate-mass black hole.
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The Neutron Star That Thinks It's a Black Hole
Are There Better Ways to Communicate with Mars?
Want to Soar to the Stratosphere? Japan Joins the Balloon Tourism Race
Hubble's Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images
Stars Can Eat Their Planets...and Spit Them Back Out Again
Watch a Baby Planet Carve Out a Home for Itself
The Earth has an Even More Inner Core, and it's a Ball of Solid Metal
Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of a fifth layer in Earth's interior: an innermost-inner core!
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The Universe May Have Started with a Dark Big Bang
How do Black Holes Make a Shadow?
Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from Juno, With More to Come
An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds
It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days
A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.
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Astronomers Go Hunting for Mysterious Q-balls
Why are Earth's Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
ESA's Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter's unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system's innermost world.
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A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought to be impossible.
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The Dark Energy Camera Captures the Remains of an Ancient Supernova
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of the galaxy.
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Astronomers Prepare for a Total View of Total Solar Eclipses
Blue Origin is Building Solar Cells out of (Simulated) Lunar Regolith
Spectacular Night Launch Sends SpaceX Crew 6 to the Space Station
JWST Sees the Same Supernova Three Times in an Epic Gravitational Lens
Remember the DART impact? Hubble Made a Movie of the Debris
The James Webb Is Getting Closer to Finding What Ionized the Universe
Hubble Sees an Epic Merger of Three Galaxies
Humanity has Never Seen the sky in the Longest Wavelengths. That Could Change With a new Space Telescope
How Cold is Space?
Speedrunning Star Formation in the Cygnus X Region
Our Best Instruments Couldn't Find Life on Mars
Venus is Like an Exoplanet that's Right Next Door
Venus' Outer Shell is Thinner and "Squishier" Than Previously Believed
Universe-Breaking Galaxies, Source of Dark Energy, Mars Anniversary
A Replacement Soyuz Arrives Safely at the International Space Station
The Planet That Shouldn't Exist
Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field
The cosmic web is filled with magnetic fields, and we are starting to observe them at last.
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Not Just Water. Enceladus is Also Blasting Silica Into Space
A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies
Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it
Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
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59 New Planets Discovered in Our Neighborhood
The CARMENESE Consortium just released the first collection of data, which revealed 59 new exoplanets and doubled the number of known planets around Red Dwarf suns.
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Europa Could be Covered in Salty Ice
Recreating the Extreme Forces of an Asteroid Impact in the Lab
It Should be Possible to Farm on the Moon
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
How are Mars Rocks Getting "Shocked" by Meteorite Impacts?
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was young.
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