Universe Today
One Star Flies Past the Milky Way's Black Hole at 3% the Speed of Light
It Would Take About 100 Billion Years for Another Star to Pass Close Enough to Make the Solar System Unstable
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers shows that our Solar System will not experience a close and disruptive stellar flyby for a very long time!
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Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
SpaceX Shares an Image of the Super Heavy Booster Bristling With 33 Newly Installed Raptor Engines
SpaceX has released new images that show the Starship and Superheavy prototypes with all their engines!
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We've Seen a Helicopter on Mars. Next, Sailplanes?
Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images "Almost Brought him to Tears." We'll see Them on July 12th
The first images taken by James Webb will be released in a little more than a week! According to NASA, they are so moving that you may cry when you see them!
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The United States announces a stop to testing Anti-Satellite Weapons
Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power
The Solar System is Stable for at Least the Next 100,000 Years
Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one... Doesn't
Tidal Heating Could Make Exomoons Much More Habitable (and Detectable)
A new study shows how the study of tidal heating in exomoons could greatly expand the search for life in the Universe.
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Red Supergiant Stars Bubble and Froth so Much That Their Position in the Sky Seems to Dance Around
This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems
The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars
A Dying Star's Last Act was to Destroy all Its Planets
The Rings of Uranus and Neptune Could Help map Their Interiors
A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images
Cygnus Boosts the International Space Station for the First Time. NASA Can Now Potentially Keep the Station Aloft Without Russia's Progress Spacecraft
Record 'Fast Nova' Flares Over a Single Day
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
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A Star has Grown Spiral Arms
Curiosity Finds Life-Crucial Carbon in Mars Rocks
Rocket Lab Launches NASA's CAPSTONE Mission to the Moon
Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried up From Down Below
Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way
We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves
A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes.
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Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars
Giant Sunspot AR3038 has Doubled in Size and is Pointed Right at Earth. Could be Auroras Coming
Remember That Rocket That was Going to Crash Into the Moon? Scientists Think They've Found the Crater
Supernovae Were Discovered in all These Galaxies
VY Canis Majoris is Dying, and Astronomers are Watching
NASA Funds the Development of a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon That Would Last for 10 Years
Amazing Flaky Martian Rocks Were Formed in a Stream or a Small Pond
Mars Curiosity rover continues to make impressive scientific findings as it gets closer to marking its tenth anniversary on Mars!
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Despite its draining power, NASA's InSight Mars lander is determined to squeeze as much science as it can until the very last moment
More Rocket Launches Could Damage the Ozone Layer
NASA Says It's Satisfied With Rehearsal for SLS Moon Rocket Launch
SpaceX is now Constructing the Starship Launch Tower at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX is building another "Mechazilla" launch tower at Launch Complex-39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Recent Supernovae Produced Giant Cavities in the Orion Nebula
Astronomers Find a Brand new Pulsar That's Probably Less Than 14 Years old
Astronomers have discovered a neutron star so young it's barely a teenager.
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BepiColombo's Second Mercury Flyby
BepiColombo's stunning close pass by Mercury on Thursday provides a prelude of what's to come.
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If Bacteria Drink Kombucha, They Stand a Better Chance of Survival on Mars
South Korea is now a Space-Faring Nation With the Orbital Launch of Their Homegrown Nuri Rocket
South Korea just became the 11th member of the space club, and the seventh nation to launch a commercial payload!
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Do Ancient Coins Record the Supernova of 1054?
64 Radio Telescopes Come Together to act as a Single Giant Observatory
The MeerKAT array just combined the power of its 64 radio telescopes to create a single telescope, which is already allowing for cutting-edge cosmological research!
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Plenty of Examples That Giant Galaxies Like the Milky Way Formed Through Mergers
Chinese Astronomers Detect an Interesting (But NOT Alien) Signal With the FAST Radio Observatory
Unfortunately, China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) did NOT detect possible alien signals, only radio interference from Earth.
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This Tiny Dot is one of the Biggest, Most Active Galaxy Superclusters Ever Seen. It Was Already a Monster Shortly After the Big Bang
Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats
The famous Wow Signal might be a repeating radio burst, and astronomers might soon prove it.
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Charon's Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer
A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes
Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?
