Phew, Earth-Watching DSCOVR is Operational Again
Rejoice! If you’ve missed your daily fix of seeing views of our rotating Earth from space, NOAA announced that its…
Carnival of Space #653
Welcome to the 653rd Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…
NASA is Planning to Build a Lunar Rover With a 1-Meter Drill to Search for Water Ice
Meet VIPER, NASA's new lunar rover, equipped with a drill to probe the Moon's surface and look for water ice.…
Magnetic Fields Around Mars InSight are 10x Stronger than Scientists Expected
Data from the first year of the InSight mission has just been released, and its revealing some unexpected things about…
3 Billion Years Ago, the World Might Have Been a Waterworld, With No Continents At All
Evidence from an ancient section of the Earth's crust suggest that Earth was once a water-world, some three billion years…
Introducing Analog Sky’s 3D-Printed Giant Binoculars
Update: we're happy to announce that Analog Sky is making a special offer just for Universe Today readers for its…
Even Though it Was Observing an Asteroid, OSIRIS-REx Accidentally Spotted a Black Hole
While the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting asteroid Bennu, one of the instruments on board happened to catch a glimpse of…
Astronomers Have Recorded the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe
Hundreds of millions of light years away, a supermassive black hole sits in the center of a galaxy cluster named…
Another Reminder that Spaceflight is Difficult. Starship Prototype Explodes and Falls Over
SpaceX suffered another setback when its Starship prototype SN1 exploded during a loading test - similar to what happened to…
Here’s a New Planetary Nebula for Your Collection: CVMP 1
Some stars die a beautiful death, ejecting their outer layers of gas into space, then lighting it all up with…