Universe Today (Page 77)

SpaceX Sets New Record with Successful Test-Firing of 31 Raptor Engines!

By Matthew Williams - February 09, 2023 05:27 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX set a new record for thrust with the B7 booster's static fire test, which saw 31 of its 33 engines fire simultaneously.

The Raw Materials for Life Form Early on in Stellar Nurseries

By Evan Gough - February 09, 2023 03:36 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Astronomers still scratching their heads over population of ocean-world exoplanets

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - February 08, 2023 11:20 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Dwarf Planet Quaoar has a Ring

By Evan Gough - February 08, 2023 06:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Could a Dark Energy Phase Change Relieve the Hubble Tension?

By Matthew Williams - February 08, 2023 04:54 PM UTC | Cosmology

A new study suggests that the Hubble Constant could be resolved by the presence of a "New Early Dark Energy" (NEDE) in the early Universe.

A Russian Satellite Has Broken Into Pieces, Littering Debris in Space

By Nancy Atkinson - February 08, 2023 03:58 PM UTC | Space Policy

New Discoveries Puts Jupiter at 92 Known Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - February 08, 2023 11:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

The World's Largest Radio Telescope Just Scanned 33 Exoplanets for a Signal From Aliens

By Matthew Williams - February 07, 2023 06:19 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Using China's FAST telescope and a new technique, an international team of astronomers scanned 33 exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Astronomers Make a New Map of all the Matter (and Dark Matter) in the Universe

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 07, 2023 06:00 PM UTC | Cosmology

This Exoplanet Orbits Around its Star's Poles

By Evan Gough - February 07, 2023 04:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Sierra Space Tests Another Inflatable Space Station Module ... to Destruction

By Nancy Atkinson - February 07, 2023 12:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Check Out This Great View of Comet 96P Machholz, Courtesy of SOHO

By David Dickinson - February 07, 2023 07:09 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Now's the time to catch periodic Comet 96P Machholz on its encore dawn performance, before it slides out of view.

Earth-Sized Planet Found At One of the Lightest Red Dwarfs

By Evan Gough - February 06, 2023 10:22 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Hubble's New View of the Tarantula Nebula

By Evan Gough - February 06, 2023 04:25 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Face-on View of Galaxy NGC 4303 Reveals its Arms are Filled with Active Star Formation

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - February 06, 2023 03:45 PM UTC | Extragalactic

JWST Unexpectedly Finds a Small Asteroid During 'Failed' Observations

By Nancy Atkinson - February 06, 2023 12:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Rolls-Royce Space Reactor, Close Call in Orbit, Webb's Back

By kuingul-gmail - February 05, 2023 07:51 PM UTC | Missions

A.I. Finds a New Way to Build Multiple-Star Systems

By Paul Sutter - February 05, 2023 10:50 AM UTC | Stars

Astronomers use Earthquakes to Understand Glitches on Neutron Stars

By Paul Sutter - February 04, 2023 10:48 AM UTC | Stars

The James Webb May See the First Stars to Appear in the Universe

By Paul Sutter - February 03, 2023 10:27 PM UTC | Cosmology

Curiosity Finds Another Metal Meteorite on Mars

By Evan Gough - February 03, 2023 06:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hungry Black Hole was Already Feasting 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

By Evan Gough - February 03, 2023 03:24 PM UTC | Black Holes

Mars Ingenuity Kicks up a Surprising Amount of Dust Every Time it Lands

By Matthew Williams - February 03, 2023 02:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Based on all the dust Ingenuity helicopter kicked up, a team of researchers has completed the first real-world study of Martian dust dynamics.

This Binary System is Destined to Become a Kilonova

By Evan Gough - February 02, 2023 08:56 PM UTC | Stars

The Historic Discussion of Ptolemy's Star Catalog

By jon-voisey - February 02, 2023 12:15 PM UTC | Stars

The First Stars May Have Weighed More Than 100,000 Suns

By Paul Sutter - February 02, 2023 11:46 AM UTC | Stars

Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk

By Nancy Atkinson - February 02, 2023 11:04 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Good News! Webb is Fully Operational Again

By Nancy Atkinson - February 02, 2023 08:32 AM UTC | Telescopes

Soon Every Spacecraft can Navigate the Solar System Autonomously Using Pulsars

By sjohnston - February 01, 2023 10:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers Come Closer to Understanding How Mercury Formed

By Paul Sutter - February 01, 2023 09:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Rolls-Royce Reveals a Nuclear Reactor That Could Provide Power on the Moon

By Matthew Williams - February 01, 2023 07:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Rolls-Royce has released a teaser about the "micro-reactor" they are developing in partnership with the UK Space Agency.

Astronomers Detect a Second Planet Orbiting Two Stars

By Evan Gough - February 01, 2023 04:59 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Don't Bother Trying to Destroy Rubble Pile Asteroids

By Evan Gough - January 31, 2023 02:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Watch This 12-Year Timelapse of Exoplanets Orbiting Their Star

By Nancy Atkinson - January 31, 2023 10:55 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Freezing Ocean Might Not Be Responsible for Cryovolcanic Flows on Pluto's Moon, Charon

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 31, 2023 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

South Korea's Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 31, 2023 08:25 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Soon We'll Detect Extreme Objects Producing Gravitational Waves Continuously

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - January 31, 2023 12:54 AM UTC | Physics

The Outer Solar System Supplied a Surprising Amount of Earth's Water

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 30, 2023 11:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Scientists Examine Geological Processes of Monad Regio on Neptune's Largest Moon, Triton

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - January 30, 2023 11:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn

By Matthew Williams - January 30, 2023 07:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

The latest results from the HERA Collaboration suggest how the earliest galaxies in the Universe slowly dispelled the cosmic "Dark Ages."

Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape

By Matthew Williams - January 30, 2023 04:18 PM UTC | Telescopes

An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope