When the Sun Dies, it Could Produce a Fantastic Ring in Space, Like This New Image From JWST
We recently got a new image of the famous Ring Nebula from JWST using its NIRCam instrument. This week we…
Catch a Cycle of Lunar Occultations of Antares Starting This Week
Most North America gets to see the Moon blot out Antares Thursday night.
Russia's Luna 25 Lander Crashed Into the Moon
On Saturday, Aug. 19th, Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffered an engine malfunction and crashed its lunar lander on the Moon's surface.
Is This How You Get Magnetars?
Imagine a living star with a magnetic field at least 100,000 times stronger than Earth's field. That's the strange stellar…
Floating Seismometers Could Help Peer Into The Core of Venus
Seismology has been ubiquitous on Earth for decades, and missions such as InSight have recently provided the same data for…
A Maglev System On The Moon Could Make Lunar Logistics A Breeze
Maglevs are one of those technologies that still look like magic, even years after they were initially rolled out. While…
Universe Today Interviews Author, Engineer & Technologist Les Johnson About the 8th Interstellar Symposium
Universe Today sat down with NASA technologist, engineer, and author Les Johnson as he talked about some of the highlights…
A New Way to Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe: Redshift Drift
Almost all the galaxies in the Universe are speeding away from us because of the Big Bang and the acceleration…
This Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet is Unusual for Several Reasons
In a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of international researchers examined…
Want to Find UFOs? That's a Job for Machine Learning
A new study shows how hyperspectral imaging and AI could help in the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).