Ice Deposits on Ceres Might Only Be a Few Thousand Years Old
The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice was ancient when they…
The Mystery of Cosmic Rays Deepens
Cosmic rays are high-energy particles accelerated to extreme velocities approaching the speed of light. It takes an extremely powerful event…
NASA Confirms that a Piece of its Battery Pack Smashed into a Florida Home
NASA is in the business of launching things into orbit. But what goes up must come down, and if whatever…
Are Titan's Dunes Made of Comet Dust?
A new theory suggests that Titan's majestic dune fields may have come from outer space. Researchers had always assumed that…
The Solar Wind is Stripping Oxygen and Carbon Away From Venus
The BepiColombo mission, a joint effort between JAXA and the ESA, was only the second (and most advanced) mission to…
The Solar Eclipse Like We’ve Never Seen it Before
You had to be in the right part of North America to get a great view of the recent solar…
The Milky Way’s Most Massive Stellar Black Hole is Only 2,000 Light Years Away
Astronomers have found the largest stellar mass black hole in the Milky Way so far. At 33 solar masses, it…
Amazing Amateur Images of April 8th’s Total Solar Eclipse
The last total solar eclipse across the Mexico, the U.S. and Canada for a generation wows observers.
Organic Chemistry: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?
Universe Today has recently had the privilege of investigating a myriad of scientific disciplines, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, solar physics, comets, planetary atmospheres, planetary geophysics, cosmochemistry, meteorites,…
The Milky Way’s History is Written in Streams of Stars
The Milky Way is ancient and massive, a collection of hundreds of billions of stars, some dating back to the…