Universe Today
Completely Harmless Asteroid Almost Certainly Won't Hit Earth Just Before the US Election
Did Jupiter Push Venus Into a Runaway Greenhouse?
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?
In our latest installment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven't heard from aliens is because they've been wiped out by killer robots!
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Lunar Landings Will Make it Harder to Study the Moon's Ice Deposits
A new study led by researchers from the JHUAPL indicates that future missions to the Moon could contaminate the lunar environment with their exhaust.
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Could There Be Life in the Cloudtops of Venus?
NASA's New Video Shows You What it's Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light
NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!
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First Laser Space Debris Detection Made... in Daylight
A new technique may prove to be a powerful tool in the battle to mitigate space debris.
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The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost binary companion.
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Could a tabletop experiment detect gravitational waves and determine the quantum nature of gravity?
A tabletop gravitational wave detector could take decades to build, but it could answer the most fundamental questions in physics.
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This Distorted Circle is Actually a Galaxy That Looked Very Similar to the Milky Way, Shortly After the Big Bang
Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago and were surprised to see that it looks a lot like how the Milky Way appears today.
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Remembering Don Arabian, the 'Mad Genius' Behind NASA's Apollo Engineering Team
Machine Learning Just Classified Over Half a Million Galaxies
Some Astronomers Think Betelgeuse Dimmed Because it "Sneezed". And it Might be Getting Ready to do it Again
An international team of researchers has proposed a new explanation for why Betelgeuse has been mysteriously dimming, just as it started dimming again!
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The Last Supernovae
The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos.
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What's Possible When Earth and Space-based Telescopes Work Together?
A Broken Cable Smashed Part of the Arecibo Observatory
The iconic Arecibo Observatory recently suffered some damage when a support cable broke and created a large gash in the reflecting dish
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Did Snowball Earth Happen Because of a Sudden Drop in Sunlight?
Art Installation that Demonstrates How Dark Matter Bends Light with Gravity
A new art installation at the Science Gallery Dublin, called "Dark Distortions," helps viewers to see the influence dark matter has on light in our Universe.
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Fastest Star Ever Seen is Moving at 8% the Speed of Light
A star orbiting the black hole in the center of our galaxy is moving so fast it can only be described relativistically.
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Virgin Galactic Wants to Build a Supersonic Jetliner That'll go Even Faster Than the Concorde
Virgin Galactic has announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls Royce to develop a supersonic jetliner that will be even faster than the Concorde
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A Huge Ring-Like Structure on Ganymede Might be the Result of an Enormous Impact
It's Starting to Look Like Ceres is an Ocean World, Too
SpaceX is Hiring People to Help Build a Resort at the Boca Chica Launch Facility
SpaceX recently announced that they are looking for a Resort Development Manager to help them turn Boca Chica into a bona fide spaceport
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Hubble Examines Earth's Reflection as an 'Exoplanet' During a Lunar Eclipse
Seeing baby stars at every stage of their formation
Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars are Really, Really Big. Big Enough to Fit an Entire Planetary Base
Astronomers Think They've Found the Neutron Star Remnant From Supernova 1987a
Recent observations and theortetical work have brought us one step closer to resolving the mystery of what lies at the center of the supernova SN 1987A
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InSight's Mole Is In!
The Martian Sky Pulses in Ultraviolet Every Night
A magnetar has been discovered throwing off bizarre blasts of radiation. Is this where fast radio bursts come from?
Asteroids Somehow Migrated Past Jupiter During the Solar System's Early History
An exoplanet has been found for the first time using radio telescopes
Neutron stars of different masses can make a real mess when they collide
Why Can Black Hole Binaries Have Dramatically Different Masses? Multiple Generations of Mergers
Black hole mergers with very different masses tell us how small mergers can give rise to even larger ones.
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A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turned Into a Ring Around the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers discovered some surprising when studying a debris ring around our Milky Way: the remnants of an ancient globular cluster
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Newly forming star has spiral arms like a tiny galaxy
Mira-type variable stars are constantly throwing the key chemicals for life out into space
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?
Is it possible that the aliens are not hiding, but sleeping and waiting for the Universe to get better?
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Meteors of August: Our Guide to the 2020 Perseids
It's August and that means the Perseid meteors are inbound, starting this weekend this shower is a sure-fire bet, though 2020 sees the spectacle go down under somewhat challenging circumstances.
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Antarctica Is the Best Place On Earth for a Telescope, Is Also the Hardest Place to Put a Telescope
A Strange Planet has been Found that's Smaller than Neptune But 50% More Massive
Martian Features Were Carved by Glaciers, not Flowing Rivers
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun's Last Nine Big Flares
NASA Astronauts are Back on Earth After a Successful Crew Dragon Splashdown
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley just returned from the ISS, completing the first crewed mission from US soil in almost a decade.
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Finally! SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies Just Over 150 Meters Into the Air
Yesterday, SpaceX moved one step closer to sending people to the Moon and Mars when its SN5 prototype successfully made a 150 m (~500 ft) hop test!
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There's One Cloud on Mars That's Over 1800 km Long
Some Stars Could Support as Many as 7 Habitable Planets
A new study by a team of astronomers and planetary scientists calculate that some stars could have as many as 7 habitable planets orbiting them!
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The Universe is the Same, Everywhere We Look. Even More than Cosmologists Predicted
The Universe is about 10% smoother than we expect, and astronomers aren't entirely sure why.
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Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life
