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…
SuperWASP are Super Planet-Finding Observatories
The United Kingdom’s Wide Area Search for Planets, known as SuperWASP consists of two 8-camera robotic observatories that cover both…
NASA to Burn Sponsor Logos into the Surface of Mars
NOTE: This was the Universe Today's contribution to April Fools Day (April 1st), but it isn't all a joke... International…
What is Phoenix? It’s a Mars Mission Question on Jeopardy!
The answer was: "A NASA Mars lander has this mythic name because it was made of parts from a scrapped…