A new Climate Model Suggests That Venus Never had Oceans
A new study has cast doubt on whether or not Venus ever had oceans, challenging the notion that it was…
Primordial Gravitational Waves Continue to Elude Astronomers
New observations put further constraints on primordial gravitational waves, but still haven't found them yet.
The Early Solar System Had a Gap Where the Asteroid Belt is Today
Wind the cosmic clock back a few billion years and our Solar System looked much different than it does today.…
A map of River Beds on Titan for Dragonfly to Explore
Explorers either have the benefit of having maps or the burden of creating them. Similarly, space explorers have been building…
I Could Look at James Webb Unboxing Pictures all Day
Crews at the Guyanese Space Center recently "unboxed" the James Webb Space Telescope and are now getting it ready for…
Uh oh, one of Lucy’s Solar Arrays Hasn’t Latched Properly
As we’re fond of saying here at UT, space exploration is hard. Many things can go wrong when launching thousands…
Meteorites Found With Little Pieces of Other Stars
When Carl Sagan said, “We are all made of star stuff,” he didn’t just mean we were made up of…
There are 6×10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe
A new study based on Information Theory has produced the first estimate on just how much data is encoded in…
The Large Magellanic Cloud Stole one of its Globular Clusters
Astronomers have known for years that galaxies are cannibalistic. Massive galaxies like our own Milky Way have gained mass by…
Lucy is off to Visit Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on its way. The spacecraft was launched into space on Saturday, October 16th on an Atlas…