Astronomy
The First Cubesat With a Hall-Effect Thruster has Gone to Space
Student-led teams aren’t the only ones testing out novel electric propulsion techniques recently. Back in November, a company called Exotrail…
Planets are Finally Being Discovered Orbiting Farther From Their Stars
We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn.
This is What the Sun Looked Like for Every Day in 2020
Have you ever seen the videos of people taking daily selfies of themselves over the course of years or even…
According to the Math, it’s Highly Unlikely That an Intelligent Civilization is Located at Alpha Centauri
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial…
James Webb Unfolds Sunshield
It’s almost time. Soon the James Webb Space Telescope will be on its way to the Sun/Earth L2 Lagrange point…
The Roman Space Telescope’s Version of the Hubble Deep Field Will Cover a 100x Larger Area of the Sky
Remember the Hubble Deep Field? And its successor the Hubble Ultra Deep Field? We sure do here at Universe Today.…
Will Solar Cycle 25 Dazzle or Fizzle in 2021?
A new study suggests that Solar Cycle 25 may be more powerful than previously predicted.
The Mystery of Sunquakes is Deep; One Million Meters Deep!
The Sun, as it turns out, is a pretty big deal. The thermonuclear behemoth at the center of the solar…
There Should be a few Supernovae in the Milky Way Every Century, but we’ve Only Seen 5 in the Last 1000 Years. Why?
Our galaxy hosts supernovae explosions a few times every century, and yet it's been hundreds of years since the last…
Japan to Launch ‘Wooden Satellite’ in 2023
What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.