Universe Today
A New Supernova Remnant Found from an Exploding White Dwarf Star
Emirates Mars Mission Arrives at the Red Planet Today!
The UAE Hope mission arrives at Mars today, kickng off a two year study of the Martian atmosphere. This is the first mission mounted by an Arab nation and offers inspiration for the future!
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If Dark Matter is Made of Sterile Neutrinos, a new Survey has Narrowed Down What to Look for
If dark matter is made of sterile neutrinos, it should emit a distinct signature of x-rays.
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Nearby Ancient Dwarf Galaxies Have a Surprising Amount of Dark Matter
According to new research led from MIT, ancient dwarf galaxies may have had more dark matter than previously thought.
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Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA's Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
What's Causing Those Landslides on Mars? Maybe Underground Salt and Melting Ice
Electrons Can Get Accelerated to Nearly the Speed of Light As They Interact With the Earth's Magnetosphere
Astronomers Can Predict When a Galaxy's Star Formation Ends Based on the Shape and Size of its Disk
A New Radar Instrument Will Try To Fill the Void Left By Arecibo
What Looked Like Phosphine On Venus Might Actually Just Be Sulfur Dioxide
Dark Energy Survey Finds Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses
SLS Will be Tested Again in About 3 Weeks
In three weeks, NASA will be conducting its second hot fire test with the SLS. If all goes well, the fully-integrated system will launch in November!
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Astronomers are now Finding Planetary Disks Around the Smallest, Least Massive Stars
Every Challenge Astronauts Will Face on a Flight to Mars
A team of researchers from India conducted a study that considers all the hazards of sending crews to Mars (which was also presented at this year's Space Biology Virtual Workshop)
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Narrowing Down the Mass of Dark Matter
It Looks Like Iceberg A-68A is Coming Apart
BluShift Aerospace Launches Stardust 1.0 Rocket
Maine-based BluShift Aerospace takes its first step, with the launch of a unique rocket.
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Is There An Apollo 14 Moon Tree Near You?
The Earth's Magnetosphere Might be Creating Water on the Moon
By Measuring Light From Individual Stars Between Galaxy Clusters, Astronomers Find Clues About Dark Matter
Black Holes Simulated in a Tank of Water Reveals "Backreaction" for the First Time
Water simulations that small gravitational waves near a black hole can significantly change the black hole's behavior.
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A new Class of Exoplanets can Shrink, From Subneptunes Into Superearths
Physicists Figure out how to Make Gravitational Wave Detectors "Hear" 6x More Universe
What Could We Learn From a Mission to Phobos?
According to new research that looks at MAVEN data, Mars' larger moon (Phobos) could contain a record of how Mars' underwent significant climate change.
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SN9 Tests Ends With a Boom. You're Up SN10
SpaceX just conducted their second high-altitude flight tests, which once again ended in an explosion. On to SN10!
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When Galaxies Collide, Black Holes Don't Always Get the Feast They Were Hoping for
MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
Astronomers are Starting to Understand the Quasar Lifecycle
Galaxy Mergers can Boost Star Formation, and it can Also Shut it Down
A Sunlike Star Found With Four (No, Five!) Exoplanets Orbiting It
Thanks to an international team astronomers led from MIT, a nearby Sun-like star has been spotted with a system of five exoplanets, making it the perfect target for observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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A Crater on Venus Indicates the Planet Hasn't Been Volcanic for a Long Time
Neutrinos Have a Newly Discovered Method of Interacting With Matter, Opening up Ways to Find Them
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently conducted another neutrino experiment that could lead to the discovery of new physics.
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White Dwarf Atmospheres Might Contain the Pulverized Crusts of Their Dead Planets
2020 Ties for the Hottest Year on Record
According to NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), 2020 tied 2016 for being the hottest year on record!
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We Now Have a 3D Map of The 525 Closest Brown Dwarfs
Iceland is a Similar Environment to Ancient Mars
A new study conducted by NASA scientists and Rice University shows how Iceland's environment is the closest analog on Earth for ancient Mars
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Saturn Got Its Tilt From Its Moons
OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May
Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of Biosphere 2 Inspired SAM²
Guided by the lessons of Biosphere 2 experiments, a team of experts is launching the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars (SAM2) experiment to learn what we need to know so we can colonize the Moon and Mars someday
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Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn't Have any Clouds
All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far
Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise
A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online… and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery over a century old.
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What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?
Solar Orbiter Caught Venus, Earth and Mars in One of its Photos
Galileo's Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it
Axiom Space Reveals the Crew for Its First Space Odyssey in 2022 (Sorry, Tom Cruise)
You Know it's Spring on Mars When the Carbon Dioxide is Starting to Sublimate
One of the Oldest Stars in the Galaxy has a Planet. Rocky Planets Were Forming at Nearly the Beginning of the Universe
NASA has Chosen 4 new Pioneer Missions: Aspera, Pandora, StarBurst, and PEUO
A Cubesat Will Test out Water as a Propulsion System
