Oumuamua 2.0? It Looks Like There’s a New Interstellar Object Passing Through the Solar System
Astronomers with NASA and the ESA have confirmed that an object that could be interstellar in origin (like 'Oumuamua) is…
Here’s Hubble’s Newest Image of Saturn
Hubble has captured a new image of Saturn that makes you wonder if it's even real. The image is so…
Astronomers Find a Supermassive Black Hole That’s Feasting on a Regular Schedule, Every 9 Hours
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with an unusually regular feeding schedule. The behemoth is an active galactic…
Weekly Space Hangout: September 11, 2019 – Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of New Horizons
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) (more…)
Hubble Has Looked at the 2017 Kilonova Explosion Almost a Dozen Times, Watching it Slowly Fade Away
In 2017, LIGO (Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) and Virgo detected gravitational waves coming from the merger of two neutron stars.…
India has Located the Vikram Lander, But it’s Still not Communicating With Home
The ISRO has confirmed the location of their Vikram lander on the lunar surface, but is uncertain if it survived…
Water Discovered in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet in the Habitable zone. It Might Be Rain
Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in its star's habitable zone.…
Astronauts Try Mixing Concrete in Space
What sounds like a slap-stick comedy shtick is actually solid science. With so much of humanity's space-faring future involving habitats,…
Entrepreneurs and Engineers Come Together to Design a Peaceful Lunar Settlement
The OpenLuna Foundation wants to create a base on the Moon using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to allow the public…
China’s FAST Telescope, the World’s Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope, is Now Fully Operational
After years of construction, China's new radio telescope is in action. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)…