STEREO Spacecraft Captures Footage of a Solar Tsunami
A solar tsunami blasted its way through the sun’s lower atmosphere on May, 19 2007, and the action was captured…
So, What Does an Anti-Satellite Weapon Actually Look Like?
In February, the Universe Today followed the sad tale about a dead US satellite called US-193, lifelessly floating around in…
Podcast: Space Junk
We're polluting every corner of our own planet, so it only makes sense that we'll take our trashy habits out…
Astronomers Find the Smallest Black Hole
Black holes seem to have no upper limit; some weigh in at hundreds of millions of times the mass of…
Virgin/Google’s Mission to Mars: Virgle
Set your April jokes on fool, dear reader because it's April 1st. That means there'll be a non-stop barrage of…
National Astronomical Meeting 2008 Coverage
You're going to see a flurry of astronomy news this week. That's because it's time for the UK's National Astronomical…
Early Universe Had Burst of Star Formation
Just as humans develop and grow the fastest when we are young, it also appears our universe grew and developed…
Supernova Alert: Supernova Factories Discovered
Two “supernova factories,†rare clusters of Red Supergiant (RSG) stars, have recently been discovered. Together they contain 40 RSGs, which…
Solar Corona Revealed by Medical X-Ray Techniques
For several decades solar scientists have been hard at work trying to unravel the mysteries of the solar corona. Thanks…
Old Galaxies Stick Together In A Young Universe
Can appearances be deceiving? According to the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), galaxies that appear old in our Universe's early…