Universe Today
It's Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star's Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes
NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027.
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Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission
Truck-Sized Asteroid Flew Past Earth Yesterday, Coming Within 3,600 km
Webb NIRISS Instrument has Gone Offline
Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List
Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang
Perseverance Takes a Selfie to Show off Some of its Samples
There's a Crater on Mars That Looks Like a Bear
According to Simulations, the Milky Way is One in a Million
Study Shows How Cells Could Help Artemis Astronauts Exercise
New research aims to ensure astronauts' health by mimicking the human body's response to exercise.
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Spectacular Images of the Rare 'Green Comet' Gracing Our Skies
Physicist encourages continuing the search for life in Venus' atmosphere
Dust is Hiding how Powerful Quasars Really are
A new study has found that Active Galactic Nuclei are much brighter and similar to one another than previously thought.
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A New Survey of the Milky Way Reveals Billions of Objects, Helping to Map Our Surroundings in Three Dimensions
JWST Sees Frozen Water, Ammonia, Methane and Other Ices in a Protostellar Nebula
A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up
A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of decades.
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Titan's Dragonfly Test, New Nuclear Rocket, Shadow Universe
A new Propulsion System Could Levitate Vehicles in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere
Binary Dwarf Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Every 20 Hours. They Were Once Almost Touching
Light Pollution is Obscuring the Night Sky. RIP Stargazing
A new way to Peer Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon, Searching for Deposits of Water ice
Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam
Instead of Building Structures on Mars, we Could Grow Them With the Help of Bacteria
A new process that combines bacteria and lichen could "grow" bricks from Martian soil. The proposal selected for development by the NASA Advanced Innovation Concepts program.
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Exploring the Outer Solar System Takes Power, Here's a Way to Miniaturize Nuclear Batteries for Deep Space
Could Next-Generation Telescopes See That Earth Has Life?
By Blocking the Light From a Star, Webb Reveals the Dusty Disk Surrounding It
The Donut That Used To Be a Star
You're Looking at a Map of the Milky Way's Magnetic Field
Unistellar Releases a New Smartscope: the eQuinox 2
Unistellar's eQuinox 2 is set to continue the smartscope revolution.
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New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
NASA's Advanced Innovation Concepts (NAIC) program selected a new type of bimodal nuclear propulsion that could allow for missions to Mars in 45 days!
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A Black Hole is Savoring its Meal, Feeding on the Same Star Over and Over Again
Using the Shadows of Clusters to Measure the Universe
NASA's Psyche Mission is Back on. It'll Launch Towards its Metal Asteroid Target Later This Year
A Hybrid Fission/Fusion Reactor Could be the Best way to get Through the ice on Europa
A new proposal for a hybrid nuclear reactor could power missions to Europa, and was selected by NASA for Phase I development
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How did Dimorphos Form?
Why Does the Butterfly Nebula Look Like This?
Cosmic Noon was Billions of Years ago, When Many Galaxies Were Filled With Star-Forming Nebulae Like This
Many of the World's Greatest Observatories Suffer from Some Light Pollution
How Crazy Magnetic Fields Drive the Sun Mad
Mars Rover's Dead, Comet Incoming, JWST's First Exoplanet
NASA's Exoplanet Watch Wants Your Help Studying Planets Around Other Stars
NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!
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Astronomers Spot an Orphaned Protostar
How Life Reshapes the Habitable Zone
UFO Update Says Pentagon's Case Count Is Rising Rapidly
NASA Satellites can Pinpoint the Exact Locations of Excessive CO2 Emissions
Using data from two climate monitoring satellites, a group led by Canadian researchers tracked carbon emissions from a single coal plant in Europe.
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One Day There Could be a Pipeline of Oxygen Flowing From the Moon's South Pole
Astronomers Used a Fast Radio Burst to Probe the Structure of the Milky Way
Astronomers from Caltech used a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from another galaxy to probe the distribution of matter in the Milky Way.
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TESS has Found A Second Earth-Sized World in This System. Exoplanet Science is Maturing
NASA is Continuing to Build the Titan Dragonfly Helicopter. Here are its Rotors
