Will Gaia Be Our Next Big Exoplanet Hunter?
Early on the morning of Dec. 19, 2013, the pre-dawn sky above the coastal town of Kourou in French Guiana was briefly sliced by the…
Curiosity Rover Sees a Pixel’s-Worth of Comet Siding Spring
When Comet Siding Spring skimmed just 84,500 miles from Mars last month, NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity Rovers - along with several…
How Dust Lightens Up The ‘Dark Side’ Of Rosetta’s Comet
How do you see a side of a comet that is usually shrouded in darkness? For the plucky scientists using…
Mars Habitability? Curiosity Rover Spots Intriguing Mineral On Red Planet
NASA's Curiosity rover has struck hematite -- an iron-oxide mineral often associated with water-soaked environments -- in its first drill…
Persistent Train: Exploding Meteor Captured in New Timelapse
The Milky Way likes to amaze us, and this great video shot by Wes Eisenhauer outside of Custer, South Dakota,…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
SpaceShipTwo Pilot’s Survival is Miraculous
In this reporter's initial article for Universe Today on the SpaceShipTwo accident, it was already clear that the survival of…
When Did the First Stars Form?
Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe had cooled to the point that the first stars could form out of…
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ALMA Shows Off Baby Pictures… Baby Planets, That Is!
In a test of its new high resolution capabilities, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is happily sharing some family…
Watch Universe Today’s Fraser Cain School the Cast of ‘Interstellar’ on Black Holes
Space fans have been waiting for the movie "Interstellar" which opens in theaters this Friday, November 7. Today, the cast…