18 – Yes, 18 – New Earth-sized Exoplanets have been Found in Kepler’s Data
Scientists working with data from the Kepler mission have discovered an additional 18 Earth-sized worlds. The team used a newer,…
Catching a Ride on the Starlink Satellite Train: Midnight Marvel, or Night Sky Menace?
Have you seen Starlink? It all started, as all good breaking astronomical events seem to do, late on a Friday…
Theory proposes that Venus could have been habitable, but a large ocean slowed down its rotation, killing it
A new study supported by NASA has revealed that an ancient ocean on Venus might have been what slowed down…
Sen has Launched a 4K Video Stream to Space
In their drive towards "democratizing space", the private aerospace company Sen recently demonstrated the capabilities of their 4K video streaming…
SpaceX just launched 60 satellites for its Starlink Constellation. Internet service providers should be very worried.
SpaceX just launched the first 60 satellites that will make up their Starlink broadband internet service provider.
An Insulating Layer of Gas Could Keep a Liquid Ocean Inside Pluto
A new study led by Japanese researchers indicates that Pluto could have a subsurface ocean, provided there is an "insulating…
The Collision that Created the Moon Might Have Also Brought Water to the Early Earth
Scientists at the University of Munster have discovered that Earth got its water from a collision with Theia. Theia was…
Bizarre Star Could be the Result of Two White Dwarfs Merging Together
Stars live and die on epic time scales. Tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years, even billions…
Weekly Space Hangout: May 22, 2019 – Dr. Susan Bailey of the NASA TWINS Study
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg &…
NASA has Picked the Companies That’ll Help Build its Lunar Landers
NASA has chosen 11 American companies to help them build the next lunar landers that will carry humans to the…