Universe Today (Page 192)

JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang

By Brian Koberlein - May 08, 2023 02:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't disprove the big bang.

LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There's a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful

By Matthew Williams - May 08, 2023 01:56 PM UTC | Telescopes

A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave astronomy!

Astronomers Watch a Star Gulp Down One of its Planets

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2023 01:54 PM UTC | Stars

JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity

By kuingul-gmail - May 07, 2023 09:16 PM UTC | Stars

China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator

By Matthew Williams - May 07, 2023 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Before going into hibernation, China's Zhurong rover found evidence that water recently existed in small patches on Mars (and might still!)

A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 07, 2023 12:30 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Watch a SpaceX Fairing's Fiery Re-Entry Through the Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - May 06, 2023 02:22 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Thirsty on the Moon? Just Throw Some Regolith in the Microwave

By Brian Koberlein - May 06, 2023 10:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Lunar colonists may use microwaves to extract water from the Moon's surface.

Newborn Star Surrounded By Planet-Forming Disks at Different Angles

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 05, 2023 09:04 PM UTC | Stars

Solar Flares Could Have Helped Life Get Started on Earth

By Evan Gough - May 04, 2023 05:48 PM UTC | Astrobiology

It's Surprisingly Easy to Hurl Rocks From Mars Into Space

By Nancy Atkinson - May 04, 2023 05:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Dark Energy Was Always Present, Everywhere and at Every Time

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 04, 2023 12:38 AM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers are Starting to Find the Wreckage Left Over from the First Stars in the Universe

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 03, 2023 06:33 PM UTC | Stars

Is This Nearby Asteroid a Chunk of the Moon?

By Evan Gough - May 03, 2023 05:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Gravitational Lensing is Helping to Nail Down Dark Matter

By Matthew Williams - May 03, 2023 04:26 PM UTC | Cosmology

Using gravitational lenses, a team of astronomers showed how axions could be the particle that makes up Dark Matter.

Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination

By Brian Koberlein - May 03, 2023 03:31 PM UTC | Black Holes

Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are.

May 5th's 'Teaser' Lunar Eclipse

By David Dickinson - May 03, 2023 01:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A 'barely there' lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening.

JWST Tries to Untangle the Signals of Water. Is it Coming From the Planet or the Star?

By Matthew Williams - May 03, 2023 12:27 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Using Webb, a team of scientists may have detected water vapor in a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere (though the signal may have come from the star).

Even if There's Life on TRAPPIST-1, We Probably Can't Detect it

By Brian Koberlein - May 03, 2023 10:08 AM UTC | Astrobiology

ESA Can't Deploy JUICE's Radar Antenna. It Needs It to Scan Under the Ice at Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 02, 2023 11:02 PM UTC | Missions