LIGO has detected a third instance of gravitational waves. Like the previous two, this one was caused by merging black holes.
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In a new article, Dr. Morris Jones of METI International proposed expanding our search for evidence of intelligent life by examining more exotic forms of communication
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A team of researchers questions the existence of an event horizon around black holes and wonders what it would look like when a star collides with one.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The 100th blastoff from NASA's historic pad 39A features a SpaceX Dragon resupply mission carrying three tons of science and crew supplies to the International Space Station as well as another unfathomable ground landing of the Falcon 9 rockets first stage. UPDATE: Stormy weather and lightning scrubs launch until Saturday, June 3 at 5:07 p.m.
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A new study by researchers from St. Andrews University and the University of Strasbourg has shed light on why Venus has so few volcanoes compared to Earth.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL - Following up last week's announcement of NASA's proposed Fiscal Year 2018 top line budget of $19.1 Billion by the Trump Administration, Universe Today spoke to NASA' s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Director Robert Cabana to get his perspective on the new budget and what it means for NASA and KSC; "Stay on the path!" - with SLS, Orion, ISS and Commercial Crew was his message in a nutshell.
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Great progress is being made on the European Extremely Large Telescope. Construction of the dome and the main telescope was marked by the "First Stone" ceremony held at the telescope's site in Chile.
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The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary theory of cosmic inflation, and astronomers have been looking for evidence to this day.
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A study produced by an international team of researchers, using the HARPS-N survey, has detected a potentially habitable super-Earth just 21 light years away.
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Juno is starting to reveal the complexity and beauty of our Solar System's largest planet.
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In the hopes of telling us more about Near-Earth Objects, the NELIOTA project has begun to study bright flashes on the Moon, which are generated by meteors striking the surface.
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Located 577 light years away in the Cancer constellation is the open star cluster known as the Beehive Cluster (aka. Messier 44 or Praesepe)
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SpaceX is targeting a June 1 blastoff for the firms next cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA following today's (May 28) successful test firing of the Falcon 9 booster's main engines on the Florida Space Coast under sunny skies.
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The Sun uses its enormous mass to crush hydrogen into fusion, releasing enormous energy. How long will it be until we've got this energy source for Earth?
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While viewing a massive star in the Fireworks Galaxy that was expected to go supernova, a team of astrophysicists instead found that it had formed a black hole.
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Earlier this week, the island nation of New Zealand made history with the first successful launch of a rocket from their soil. The rocket in question was Rocket Lab's Electron prototype.
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The Trump Administration has proposed a $19.1 Billion NASA budget request for Fiscal Year 2018, which amounts to a $0.5 Billion reduction compared to the recently enacted FY 2017 NASA Budget. Although it maintains many programs such as human spaceflight, planetary science and the Webb telescope, the budget also specifies significant cuts and terminations to NASA's Earth Science and manned Asteroid redirect mission as well as the complete elimination of the Education Office.
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Located in the southern hemisphere is the small constellation of Columba, one of the 88 constellations currently recognized by the IAU.
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A team of Japanese researchers were able to fertilize mice embryos and produce a healthy litter of mice using frozen sperm that spent nine months in space.
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Tabby's Star is dimming again, and two new studies have been released that offer new and interesting theories on what could be causing it.
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In the space of just 3 days, a pair of NASA astronauts conducted an unplanned and rapidly executed contingency space walk on the exterior of the space station on Tuesday, May 23 in order to replace a critical computer unit that failed over the weekend.
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Under the right conditions, two colliding rocky bodies might form a temporary structure called a 'synestia'. This rotating mass of partially vaporized rock would might only last a hundred years or so.
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The "ice giant" Neptune, the farthest planet from our Sun, is made up of gases, super-heated liquids, and maybe even diamonds!
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A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed information about the surface conditions on TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet.
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In a presentation at Breakthrough Discuss, astrophysicist Dr. Berdyugina explained how methods used to study stars could be used to determine the presence of plants on other planets.
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A new study by a team of researchers from Monash University argues that gravitational waves may permanently alter the fabric of spacetime.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL - In a moving ceremony, a pair of veteran NASA astronauts - Michael Foale and Ellen Ochoa - who once flew together on a space shuttle mission, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida, on May 19.
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In a special two part episode, Fraser collaborates with space historian Amy Shira Teitel at Vintage Space to investigate what spaceflight advances could have happened. Amy looks at the lost Apollo Missions, while Fraser talks about Werner Von Braun's "Mars Project".
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Located in the direction of the Orion constellation, roughly 1600 light-years from Earth, is the diffuse nebula known as the De Marian's Nebula
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The worlds emerging 'Digital Society' gained a big boost following SpaceX's stunningly beautiful twilight launch of a Falcon 9 that successfully delivered the huge 6.7 ton mobile Inmarsat-5 F4 broadband satellite to orbit for London-based Inmarsat on Monday, May 15.
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We know there's dark matter, and there are galaxies, but are there galaxies entirely made up of dark matter? Astronomer Sarah Pearson joins Fraser to talk about what's out there.
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The mysterious star that was found to be dimming in 2015 (prompting speculation about an alien megastucture) has been spotted dimming again!
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A team of bioengineering students from UC San Diego has successfully created an experiment to test if beer can be brewed on the Moon
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Two studies conducted independently of each other (using data obtained aboard the ISS) have provided a possible glimpse of dark matter
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Located in the southern skies is the faint constellation of Circinus, one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the IAU
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Earlier this month, amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins spotted a type II supernova, which happened to be the closest to our Solar System in three years.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following SpaceX's "exceptional performance" launching an immensely powerful broadband satellite on their maiden mission for Inmarsat this week on a Falcon 9 rocket, the company CEO told Universe Today that Inmarsat was willing to conduct future launches with SpaceX - including on a "reusable rocket in the future!"
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A new BBC documentary called "The Day The Dinosaurs Died" explains how things might have been different for the dinosaurs if the asteroid that caused their extinction had hit deeper ocean.
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