Universe Today (Page 95)

A Pulsar has Been Found Turning so Slowly Astronomers Didn't Even Think it was Possible: Once Every 76 Seconds

By Matthew Williams - June 02, 2022 06:17 PM UTC | Stars

Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!

The Stars in Other Galaxies are Generally Heavier Than the Milky Way's Stars

By Paul Sutter - June 02, 2022 04:49 PM UTC | Stars

Even if you can't see Auroras, You Can Sometimes Hear Them. Here's What They Sound Like

By Andy Tomaswick - June 01, 2022 10:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Will Rent Future Spacesuits From Longtime Supplier and Newcomer

By Alan Boyle - June 01, 2022 07:36 PM UTC | Space Policy

Dark Stars: The First Stars in the Universe Could Have Been Powered by Annihilating Dark Matter

By Paul Sutter - June 01, 2022 04:49 PM UTC | Stars

Compare Sand Dunes Across the Solar System, From Venus to Pluto

By Matthew Williams - June 01, 2022 03:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study explains how bodies as different as Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Titan, and Triton can all have sand dunes on their surface!

Could we Detect Dark Matter's Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?

By Paul Sutter - May 31, 2022 09:32 PM UTC | Physics

Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 31, 2022 07:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Hubble Sees Two Spiral Galaxies Together

By Nancy Atkinson - May 31, 2022 06:17 PM UTC | Extragalactic

ESA's Juice Mission is Fully Integrated and Ready for Testing. Soon it'll fly to Space on a Mission to Jupiter's Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - May 31, 2022 02:56 PM UTC | Missions

Civilizations Don't Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System

By Evan Gough - May 31, 2022 02:29 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System

By Andy Tomaswick - May 30, 2022 11:05 PM UTC | Space Exploration

ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier

By Andy Tomaswick - May 30, 2022 10:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy

By Nancy Atkinson - May 30, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Planets in Binary Systems Could be Habitable, But They'd Form Differently

By Evan Gough - May 30, 2022 01:31 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Gaia is an Even More Powerful Planet Hunter Than we Thought

By Andy Tomaswick - May 28, 2022 11:06 AM UTC | Exoplanets

The Dream of Faster-than-Light (FTL) Travel: Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and Limitless Space

By Matthew Williams - May 27, 2022 06:07 PM UTC | Physics

Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and the Limited Space Institute continue to pursue the dream of the Alcubierre Warp Drive, which would allow humans to go interplanetary AND interstellar!

A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth

By Matthew Williams - May 27, 2022 04:44 PM UTC | Telescopes

A new technique that incorporates quantum techniques to interferometry could trigger another revolution in astronomy!

Voyager 1 is Sending Home Strange Telemetry Data

By Andy Tomaswick - May 27, 2022 12:21 AM UTC | Missions

The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 26, 2022 04:11 PM UTC | Black Holes

"Wind-Ruffled Waves, Foam and Wave Shadows, Above Natural Blue Seawater." This is how we'll Spot Exoplanets With Oceans

By Evan Gough - May 26, 2022 03:21 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Solar Orbiter's Pictures of the Sun are Every Bit as Dramatic as You Were Hoping

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2022 04:17 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Update on the Potential May 31st tau Herculid Meteor Storm

By David Dickinson - May 25, 2022 10:50 AM UTC | Planetary Science

If skies are clear, be sure to watch for a potential meteor outburst early next Tuesday morning.

The Moon's Ancient Volcanoes Could Have Created Ice Sheets Dozens of Meters Thick

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 24, 2022 08:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Spacesuits are Leaking Water and NASA is Holding off any Spacewalks Until They can Solve the Problem

By sjohnston - May 24, 2022 05:52 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Starliner Launches Successfully, but Two of its Thrusters Failed

By Matthew Williams - May 24, 2022 05:36 PM UTC | Missions

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner successfully launched and rendezvoused with the ISS, a crucial step towards performing commercial crew and payload services!

NASA is Building a Mission That Will Refuel and Repair Satellites in Orbit

By Nancy Atkinson - May 24, 2022 08:17 AM UTC | Missions

The "Doorway on Mars" is More Like a Dog Door

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 23, 2022 10:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Thanks to Gaia, Astronomers are Able to Map Out Nebulae in 3D

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 23, 2022 04:42 PM UTC | Milky Way

Forget About Mars, When Will Humans be Flying to Saturn?

By Andy Tomaswick - May 23, 2022 09:26 AM UTC | Space Exploration

The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) Could Detect Exoplanets Within a few Dozen Light-Years of Earth Using Astrometry

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2022 04:00 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A team of Chinese researchers has proposed a new mission to find Earth-like planets in neighboring star systems - the Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES)!

Dust Storms on Mars Happen When the Planet Can't Release its Heat Fast Enough

By Matthew Williams - May 20, 2022 03:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New research led by the USRA has found a possible explanation for planet-wide Martian dust storms, which could the result of an imbalance between the energy it absorbs and emits.