Universe Today (Page 192)

There Could be Hundreds of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets in the Solar System Right Now That we Could Study

By Matthew Williams - November 29, 2018 02:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new study, there could be hundreds of identifiable objects in our Solar System like 'Oumuamua, some of which we could study in just a few years!

Now that TESS is Operational, Astronomers Estimate it'll Find 14,000 Planets. 10 Could Be Earthlike Worlds in a Sunlike Star's Habitable Zone

By Evan Gough - November 29, 2018 01:55 PM UTC | Exoplanets

We May Soon Be Able To See the First, Supergiant Stars in the Universe

By Paul Sutter - November 28, 2018 04:18 PM UTC | Stars

We Have the Technology. Airplanes Could Spray Particles into the Atmosphere to Battle Climate Change. But Should We?

By Evan Gough - November 28, 2018 03:29 PM UTC | Space Policy

One of the Most Exciting Parts of InSight is Actually the Tiny Cubesats Tagging Along for the Ride and Their Role in the Mission

By Matthew Williams - November 28, 2018 01:21 PM UTC | Missions

A very important, but perhaps overlooked, aspect of the InSight mission was the first-ever deployment of CubeSats (MarCO) to deep space.

Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 28, 2018: David Eicher's "Mission Moon 3-D"

By Fraser Cain - November 28, 2018 08:36 AM UTC | Site News

Astronomy Cast Ep. 507: From Fiction to Fact : Ion Drive

By Susie Murph - November 27, 2018 08:52 PM UTC | Site News

Hubble's First Picture After Returning to Service. The Telescope is Fully Operational Again with Three Working Gyros

By Evan Gough - November 27, 2018 05:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

InSight Deploys its Solar Cells, Prepared for Surface Operations on Mars!

By Matthew Williams - November 27, 2018 03:39 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The InSight Lander, which had touched down on the Martian surface just hours before, has deployed its solar cells and is ready to begin science operations!

Some of the Stars in this Cluster are Almost as Old as the Universe Itself While Others Formed in a Second Generation. It Looks Young and Old at the Same Time

By Evan Gough - November 27, 2018 01:39 PM UTC | Stars

InSight Lander Touches Down! Begins Mission to Unlock the Secrets of Mars

By Matthew Williams - November 26, 2018 07:28 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Earlier today, after a seven month journey through space, NASA's InSight Lander mission touched down on the Martian surface.

Carnival of Space #588

By Susie Murph - November 26, 2018 03:22 PM UTC | Site News

Messier 72 - the NGC 6981 Globular Cluster

By Tammy Plotner - November 26, 2018 02:30 PM UTC | Milky Way

The Earth's Wandering Poles Could Have Caused the Ice Age

By Matthew Williams - November 25, 2018 06:26 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study by a team of Rice University geophysicists indicates that the Earth's wandering poles could have triggered the last ice age.

Name Change Alert! SpaceX's BFR is Now Just Called "Starship"

By Matthew Williams - November 23, 2018 06:53 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Massive Triple Star System Creates this Bizarre Swirling Pinwheel of Dust. And it Could be the Site of a Gamma Ray Burst

By Matthew Williams - November 22, 2018 05:12 PM UTC | Stars

An international team of astronomers recently located a triple star system in our galaxy that will someday unleash a massive gamma-ray burst.

Lakes on Mars Filled up so Quickly They Would Overflow Catastrophically Carving Canyons Within Weeks

By Matthew Williams - November 21, 2018 07:48 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new study, ancient lakes on Mars filled up so quickly that they overflowed, carving canyons in the surface that are still visible today.

Astronomers Detect Water in the Atmosphere of a Planet 179 Light-Years Away

By Evan Gough - November 21, 2018 07:47 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Astronomers Find One of the Sun's Sibling Stars. Born From the Same Solar Nebula Billions of Years Ago

By Matthew Williams - November 21, 2018 05:30 PM UTC | Stars

The AMBRE project, an international consortium of astronomers, was able to find a star that formed with our Sun (and is almost identical) about 184 light-years away

It's Decided, the Mars 2020 Rover Will Land in Jezero Crater

By Evan Gough - November 21, 2018 02:18 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 21, 2018: Bruce Betts' "Astronomy for Kids"

By Fraser Cain - November 21, 2018 01:41 PM UTC | Site News

SpaceX to Launch 64 Satellites, Including Orbital Reflector

By David Dickinson - November 21, 2018 07:30 AM UTC | Space Exploration

A unique smallsat mission promises to be the latest satellite "brighter than a Full Moon!" in the sky... or not. The Mission: We're talking about Orbital Reflector, conceived by Trevor Paglen and fielded by the Nevada Museum of Arts.

Strange Grooves on Phobos Were Caused by Boulders Rolling Around on its Surface

By Evan Gough - November 20, 2018 06:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Power of the Wobble: Finding Exoplanets in the Shifting of Starlight

By Paul Sutter - November 20, 2018 10:50 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Astronomers Finally Spot the Type of Star That Leads to Type 1C Supernovae

By Matthew Williams - November 19, 2018 08:14 PM UTC | Stars

Thanks to a recently-observed supernova in a distant galaxy, astronomers have been able to find what type of star leads to a Type Ic supernova.

Carnival of Space #587

By Susie Murph - November 19, 2018 01:19 PM UTC | Site News

Chinese Fusion Experiment Reaches 100 Million Degrees

By Matthew Williams - November 18, 2018 05:58 PM UTC | Physics

Scientists at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor set a new temperature record by super-heating plasma to six times the heat of the Sun!

Huge Asteroid Impact Crater Found Just Under the Ice in Greenland

By Evan Gough - November 16, 2018 05:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Lunar Outpost Shows off their New Rover that will Crawl the Moon, Searching for Resources

By Evan Gough - November 16, 2018 03:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Super Earth Planet Found Around One of the Closest Stars to us. But it's Probably a Terrible Place to Live

By Matthew Williams - November 16, 2018 03:00 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The Red Dots and CARMENES projects recently announced the discovery of a super-Earth around Barnard's Star, making it the second-closest exoplanet to Earth.

New Comet V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Takes Observers by Surprise

By David Dickinson - November 16, 2018 03:39 AM UTC | Observing

You just never know when it comes to comets. Here it is, mid-November, and we'd thought we had finished up writing about bright comets for 2018. That was, until this past weekend, when a flurry of messages flashed across the Yahoo! Comets mailing list hinting that a new, possibly bright comet had been discovered. Come Monday morning November 12th, long period Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto was formally added to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet list.

SpaceX Gives More Details on how their Starlink Internet Service Will Work. Less Satellites, Lower Orbit, Shorter Transmission times, Shorter Lifespans

By Matthew Williams - November 15, 2018 07:29 PM UTC | Space Policy

Professor Mark Handley of University College London has created a simulation that demonstrates how SpaceX's space-based internet (Starlink) will work.

So Cool! Japanese Space Research Center will be Suspended Over a Moonlike Crater

By Evan Gough - November 15, 2018 05:06 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Going 1 Million Miles per Hour With Advanced Propulsion

By Next Big Future - November 15, 2018 04:15 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Honey, Where's the Space Sperm? It's in Low-Earth Orbit, Dear

By Evan Gough - November 15, 2018 03:29 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Scientists are Using Artificial Intelligence to See Inside Stars Using Sound Waves

By Paul Sutter - November 15, 2018 11:27 AM UTC | Stars

ARCHIMEDES: Digging into the ice on Europa with lasers

By Matthew Williams - November 14, 2018 04:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration

To explore Europa for signs of life, NASA in investing in a number of technologies, which includes a laser-mining concept known as ARCHIMEDES

Gaia Spots an Enormous Ghost Galaxy Right Next Door that's Being Dismantled by the Milky Way

By Evan Gough - November 14, 2018 04:15 PM UTC | Milky Way

An Extremely Rare Gamma Ray Emitting Neutron Star Binary Has Been Found

By Matthew Williams - November 14, 2018 03:09 PM UTC | Stars

The VERITAS collaboration recently discovered a binary system with a very high-energy gamma-ray neutron star, the rarest and most extreme known object in the Universe.

Catching Asteroid 3 Juno at Its Best

By David Dickinson - November 14, 2018 04:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Not all oppositions are created equal. This week's target offers a good case in point, as asteroid 3 Juno reaches its most favorable viewing position for the decade.

Direct Observations of a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light-Years Away

By Matthew Williams - November 13, 2018 03:24 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four years and created a time-lapse video of its orbit.