Universe Today (Page 101)

After Three Months in Safe-Mode, NASA's Maven Spacecraft Has Been Recovered

By Matthew Williams - June 13, 2022 06:04 PM UTC | Missions

After a technical glitch that caused it to enter safe mode, NASA's MAVEN satellites is once again up and running and conducting science operations.

The Rapid Changes We're Seeing With the Earth's Magnetic Field Don't Mean the Poles are About to Flip. This is Normal

By Evan Gough - June 13, 2022 05:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Will Earth's Follies Take Root on Mars? Black Comedy Explores the Frontier

By Alan Boyle - June 13, 2022 10:50 AM UTC | Astrobiology

The World's Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online

By Matthew Williams - June 12, 2022 06:28 PM UTC | Telescopes

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), the first telescope of its kind, just came online in northern India!

Hubble Pins Down the Mass of a Potential Free-Floating Black Hole That's 5,000 Light-Years Away

By Nancy Atkinson - June 11, 2022 12:56 PM UTC | Black Holes

Do Supermassive Black Holes Prematurely end Star Formation in Some Galaxies?

By Paul Sutter - June 10, 2022 08:48 PM UTC | Black Holes

Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Begin Their Mission of 6 Months in Space

By Nancy Atkinson - June 10, 2022 04:42 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Jupiter is up to 9% Rock and Metal, Which Means it Ate a lot of Planets in its Youth

By Evan Gough - June 10, 2022 03:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days

By Nancy Atkinson - June 10, 2022 10:50 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 10, 2022 01:00 AM UTC | Stars

Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser

By Matthew Williams - June 09, 2022 08:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style!

Which Missions and Observatories can Detect Technosignatures?

By Andy Tomaswick - June 09, 2022 07:22 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Venus Does Have Craters. Here's one

By Evan Gough - June 09, 2022 04:30 PM UTC | Planetary Science

ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia

By Matthew Williams - June 09, 2022 03:07 PM UTC | Milky Way

What's Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs

By Alan Boyle - June 09, 2022 02:56 PM UTC | Astrobiology

JWST was Recently Hit by a Surprisingly Large Micrometeoroid

By Nancy Atkinson - June 09, 2022 09:31 AM UTC | Telescopes

Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out

By Evan Gough - June 08, 2022 04:05 PM UTC | Extragalactic

NASA has Purchased 5 More Crew Dragon Missions, Keeping the ISS Going Until 2030

By Matthew Williams - June 08, 2022 03:44 PM UTC | Space Policy

To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Cosmic Dawn Ended 1.1 Billion Years After the Big Bang

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 08, 2022 12:09 AM UTC | Cosmology

These Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 07, 2022 10:45 PM UTC | Cosmology

Curiosity Sees Bizarre Spikes on Mars

By Matthew Williams - June 07, 2022 09:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new picture taken by NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed something interesting - a pair of spikes protruding from the ground.

Ingenuity has Lost its Sense of Direction, but It'll Keep on Flying

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 07, 2022 06:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Juno's Entire 42nd Flight Past Jupiter in One Amazing Mosaic

By Nancy Atkinson - June 07, 2022 02:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

This is the Last Selfie InSight Will Ever Take

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 07, 2022 12:28 AM UTC | Missions

Astronomers Just Practiced What Would Happen if a Potentially Dangerous Asteroid was Detected

By Matthew Williams - June 06, 2022 08:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils

By Nancy Atkinson - June 06, 2022 05:44 PM UTC | Planetary Science

First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th

By Evan Gough - June 06, 2022 04:16 PM UTC | Telescopes

Watch an Entire Flight by Ingenuity, From Take-off to Landing, Covering 704 Meters

By Andy Tomaswick - June 06, 2022 09:32 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Does a "Mirror World of Particles" Explain the Crisis in Cosmology?

By Brian Koberlein - June 05, 2022 01:00 PM UTC | Cosmology

A mirror universe model might explain why measurements of Hubble constant disagree.

Hubble Sees a Surviving Companion Star After its Partner Went Supernova

By Paul Sutter - June 03, 2022 04:48 PM UTC | Stars

What is the Best Radiation Shielding for the Surface of Mars?

By Matthew Williams - June 03, 2022 03:59 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study takes a look at potential methods for radiation shielding that could inform the creation of Martian habitats

The Early Solar System was Total Mayhem

By Evan Gough - June 03, 2022 11:57 AM UTC | Planetary Science

See All Naked Eye Planets This Month... in Order

By David Dickinson - June 03, 2022 11:30 AM UTC | Planetary Science

June 2022 offers early risers the chance to trace out the naked eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn.