Universe Today (Page 144)

A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction

By Matthew Williams - August 01, 2021 01:26 PM UTC | Black Holes

Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind a black hole for the first time!

Lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Fuel Tanks Pass a Critical Test, and Could Knock a lot of Weight off a Rocket's dry Mass

By Andy Tomaswick - July 31, 2021 11:01 PM UTC | Space Exploration

InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core

By Matthew Williams - July 30, 2021 03:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure and thickness of Mars' interior.

Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They're Probably Just Frozen Clay

By Ralph Crewe - July 30, 2021 01:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS "Emergency"

By Nancy Atkinson - July 30, 2021 11:14 AM UTC | Space Exploration

The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - July 29, 2021 05:07 PM UTC | Black Holes

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center of the Centaurus A galaxy.

Strange Intersecting Sand Dunes on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 29, 2021 10:40 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Blue Origin Offers a $2 Billion Discount to get Back in the Lunar Lander Game

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 09:08 AM UTC | Space Policy

Searching for Dark Matter Inside the Earth

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Physics

A New Plan to Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts at Earth and Across the Solar System

By Matthew Williams - July 28, 2021 05:23 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Professor Avi Loeb has announced a new project that will search for 'Oumuamua-like objects in our Solar System, which could be artifacts of extraterrestrial spacecraft

Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus

By David Dickinson - July 28, 2021 09:28 AM UTC | Planetary Science

An opportunity in 2019 lays the groundwork for balloon-borne detectors on Venus, working to unravel a key mystery.

This is how you get Tatooines. Binary Star Planet Formation

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 09:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Water Vapour has Been Discovered at Ganymede

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Europe Launches its new Robotic arm, Which Will Crawl Around the International Space Station Like an Inchworm

By Andy Tomaswick - July 27, 2021 09:29 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Perseverance is About to Collect the First Sample on Mars That Could Eventually be Returned to Earth

By Matthew Williams - July 26, 2021 05:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mission controllers at NASA are making final preparations for the Perseverance rover to obtain its first sample of Martian rock, which will be returned to Earth for analysis.

When the Sun Dies, Earth's Magnetosphere won't Provide Protection any More

By Andy Tomaswick - July 26, 2021 10:51 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Zhurong Finds its Own Parachute on the Surface of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 26, 2021 10:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon Could "Hear" 70% of the Observable Universe

By Brian Koberlein - July 25, 2021 04:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

A gravitational-wave telescope on the Moon could span the gap between Earth-based and space-based observations.

Incredible! Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Newly Forming Planet

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:31 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Observing the Night Side of Venus is Actually Pretty Tricky

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:11 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Russia Just Launched a New Science Module to the Space Station

By Scott Johnston - July 24, 2021 06:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new Balloon-Based Observatory Could Produce Images as Fine as Hubble

By Andy Tomaswick - July 24, 2021 05:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

The Moon has Been Mildly Preventing Coastal Erosion, in the 2030s, That Protection Ends

By Matthew Williams - July 23, 2021 09:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new study, the Moon will be entering an orbital phase by the mid-2030s, which will drastically affect sea level rises.

Scientists Have a new way to Predict the Most Damaging Solar Storms

By Andy Tomaswick - July 23, 2021 11:08 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Micrometeorites Churn up the Surface of Europa. If you Want to Find Life, You'll Need to dig Down a Meter or So

By Matthew Williams - July 22, 2021 09:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to new research, impact craters caused by micrometeorites are the best place to look for evidence that life exists beneath Europa's icy shell.

Neutron Stars Have Mountains, They're Just a Fraction of a Millimeter High

By Andy Tomaswick - July 22, 2021 09:53 AM UTC | Stars

Here are the First New Pictures From the Fully Operational Hubble

By Nancy Atkinson - July 21, 2021 04:50 PM UTC | Observing

Ions Surf Through Jupiter's Magnetic Field, Triggering its Auroras

By Andy Tomaswick - July 21, 2021 08:19 AM UTC | Planetary Science

This is the View From Juno During its Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter

By Andy Tomaswick - July 20, 2021 01:40 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What's Next for Blue Origin After Today's Successful Flight?

By Matthew Williams - July 20, 2021 12:56 PM UTC | Site News

At a post-flight press conference, Jeff Bezos made several announcements and spoke about the next steps Blue Origin will take.

Blue Origin Successfully Launches the Oldest and Youngest Person to Ever go to Space (oh, and Jeff Bezos too)

By Nancy Atkinson - July 20, 2021 12:01 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Good News! NASA Announces that they have Fixed Hubble!

By Matthew Williams - July 19, 2021 08:17 PM UTC | Missions

NASA has announced that after more than a month of troubleshooting, the Hubble Space Telescope is operational once more!

Volcanic Activity on Venus Could Explain Phosphine

By Scott Johnston - July 19, 2021 08:14 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Where can we find a fifth force of nature?

By Paul Sutter - July 19, 2021 05:02 PM UTC | Physics

We Need to Fix Space Junk Before It's Too Late

By Paul Sutter - July 19, 2021 11:37 AM UTC | Space Policy

Fantastic Visualization Shows What Would Happen if you Dropped a Ball Across the Solar System

By Nancy Atkinson - July 19, 2021 09:23 AM UTC | Planetary Science

New Images of Mars From China's Rover

By Matthew Williams - July 18, 2021 06:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

China has released a new series of images that shows the progress their Zhurong rover has made on the Martian surface.

Exploding Material From a Gamma-ray Burst Scrambled Nearby Magnetic Fields

By Paul Sutter - July 13, 2021 04:27 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Report Suggests That Astronauts Shouldn't get More Than 600 Millisieverts of Radiation Exposure During Their Career. We get 2-3 a Year Down Here on Earth

By Paul Sutter - July 13, 2021 08:07 AM UTC | Space Policy

The Sun is Mellow Yellow Today. Billions of Years Ago? Not So Much

By Andy Tomaswick - July 13, 2021 07:43 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

A Nearby White Dwarf Might be About to Collapse Into a Neutron Star

By Matthew Williams - July 12, 2021 05:15 PM UTC | Stars

A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our Moon. It's already revolutionizing what we know about these mysterious stellar objects.