Universe Today
Cosmic Rays can Help Keep the World's Clocks in Sync
A CubeSat is Flying to the Moon to Make Sure Lunar Gateway's Orbit is Actually Stable
To validate the Lunar Gateway's orbit around the lunar poles (a halo orbit), NASA is sending the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon!
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What's the Right Depth to Search for Life on Icy Worlds?
Astronomers Finally Catch a Nova Detonating on a White Dwarf as it's Happening
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy!
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We've Now Seen Planet-Forming Disks Around Hundreds of Young Stars. What Do They Tell Us?
Our Complete Guide to This Weekend's Total Lunar Eclipse
Don't miss one of the top astronomical events for 2022: Sunday night's total lunar eclipse.
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InSight Just Detected a Record-breaking Marsquake: Magnitude 5!
'The Clocks are Telling Lies:' A New Book from Universe Today Writer Scott Alan Johnston
Martian Dust is Starting to Darken Ingenuity's Solar Panels
These are the Best Places to Search for Habitable Exomoons
Artemis 1 Probably won't Launch Until August
Technical issues have imposed delays on the Artemis I mission. NASA now claims it will likely launch by August at the earliest.
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The Tonga Eruption Reached Space!
Mars' Carbon Dioxide Glaciers are on the Move
New research has shown that the southern polar glaciers on Mars are migrating, and have been for a very long time!
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What's the Best Way to Build Landing Pads on the Moon?
A new study considers the most cost-effective way to build landing pads on the Moon, which is essential to establishing a sustainable human presence there.
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Astronaut Jessica Watkins Floats Above the Earth in the Space Station's Cupola
If There are Dyson Spheres Around White Dwarfs, We Should be Able to Detect Them
China Announces Its New Flagship Space Telescope Mission
Webb is Almost Ready. There's One Last Thing To Do
Russia Says it'll Quit the International Space Station Over Sanctions. Also, Russia Says a lot of Stuff That Doesn't Happen
Canada's Criminal Laws now Extend to Earth Orbit and the Moon
In anticipation of Artemis, the Canadian government just passed an amendment to extend its Criminal Code to the Moon!
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Extended Trips to Space Alter the Brains of Astronauts
We can Probably Find Supernovae Enhanced by Gravitational Lensing, We Just Need to Look
Even Stars Doomed to Die as Supernovae can Have Planets
This Crater on Mars is Just a Couple of Years Old
A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field
Astronomers may have seen the magnetic field of a black hole undergo a magnetic reversal.
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Volcanoes May Have Killed Venus with a Runaway Greenhouse, and Almost the Earth Too
This is a Dust Avalanche on Mars
Traveling the Solar System with Pulsar Navigation
What Does Micrometeoroid Damage do to Gossamer Structures Like Webb's Sunshield?
A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
InSight Senses its two Biggest Marsquakes so far, Coming From the Opposite Side of the Planet
NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected the two most powerful "marsquakes" to date, which are already revealing things about Mars' geology.
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Why Believing in the Multiverse Isn't Madness
Scientists Create Molecules that can Follow Darwinian Evolution
A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest "Black Widow" Binary Ever Seen
Neptune's Temperature is Behaving Strangely
The Younger the Planet, the More Likely it is to be Habitable
A Magnetic Bubble Could Protect Astronauts From Dangerous Space Radiation
NASA is Looking for Ideas on How to Simulate Missions to Mars!
NASA and HeroX have launched the NASA MarsXR Challenge, which will award up to $70,000 in prizes for innovative ideas on how to simulate future Mars missions.
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NASA Releases a Simulation of 22 Known Black Hole Binary Systems
NASA Announces the Winners of its Second Payload Challenge!
Earlier today, NASA announced the winners of their "Honey, I Shrunk the Payload, the Sequel" Challenge!
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Hydrogen Gas Can Seep Through Rock Providing Food to Bacteria. Another Place to Look for Life On Other Worlds.
Ingenuity is now Scouting Ahead of Perseverance, Helping it Navigate Difficult Terrain
A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive black hole!
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Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes
This is it! On May 12th we'll see the Event Horizon Telescope's Image of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at the ESO's headquarters on May 12th!
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Now, We can Finally Compare Webb to Other Infrared Observatories
Watch What Happens to Astronauts When the International Space Station Gets an Orbital Reboost
