Universe Today (Page 259)

Pulsars are Blasting out Cosmic Rays With a Million Billion Electronvolts

By Matthew Williams - September 02, 2022 06:38 PM UTC | Physics

A new study has confirmed that the most powerful cosmic rays in the Universe are the resulted of shock waves produced by supernovae.

Yeast Will Fill in for Humans on Artemis I, Soaking up a Lunar Mission's Worth of Radiation

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - September 01, 2022 04:55 PM UTC | Astrobiology

JWST Takes Its First Image of an Exoplanet

By Nancy Atkinson - September 01, 2022 12:00 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA Gives a Detailed Analysis of all the Landing Debris Perseverance Has Found on Mars

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 31, 2022 11:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Planet has Been Found That Shifts In and Out of the Habitable Zone

By Nancy Atkinson - August 31, 2022 10:28 PM UTC | Exoplanets

'For All Mankind' Gives Harsh Reality Check About Human Space Exploration

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 31, 2022 06:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers Find the Oldest Planetary Nebula

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 31, 2022 04:10 PM UTC | Stars

The Geology at Jezero Crater is Even More Complex Than Scientists Were Expecting

By Matthew Williams - August 31, 2022 12:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Perseverance rover has mapped the structure beneath the Jezero Crater, which shows signs of rocks that could have formed in the presence of water.

A Merger Completely Shut Down Star Formation

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 31, 2022 08:00 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Problem Solved! Voyager 1 is no Longer Sending Home Garbled Data!

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 30, 2022 10:45 PM UTC | Missions

What is ISRU, and How Will it Help Human Space Exploration?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 30, 2022 08:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

NASA Will Try Again on September 3 For First Launch of Artemis

By Nancy Atkinson - August 30, 2022 07:28 PM UTC | Missions

Science Fiction was an Inspiration for Many Professional Astronomers

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - August 30, 2022 07:08 PM UTC | Site News

New Perseverance Rock Samples Were Altered by Water. They'll be Coming Back to Earth in the Sample Return Mission

By Matthew Williams - August 30, 2022 02:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The Perseverance rover has collected the first samples that will be returned to Earth, which could provide the first evidence that life once existed there.

With Better Communication, Astronomers and Satellites can co-Exist

By Andy Tomaswick - August 30, 2022 01:27 PM UTC | Observing

Rocket Lab is Sending its own Mission to Venus to Search for Life

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - August 28, 2022 06:22 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Everything Still Looks Good for Monday's Artemis 1 Launch

By Matthew Williams - August 28, 2022 02:30 PM UTC | Missions

NASA's long-awaited Artemis I mission is a go for Monday, August 29th!

'Panic!' Around JWST, Exoplanet With CO2, Weak Mars Astronauts

By kuingul-gmail - August 27, 2022 06:02 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Mechazilla Lifts a Super Heavy With all 33 Engines Onto the Launchpad

By Matthew Williams - August 27, 2022 04:51 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Musk just tweeted an image of the fully-stacked Starship being placed on its landing pad, indicating that an orbital test flight could be coming soon!

This is What a Robotic Explorer Might See When it Reaches Europa's Oceans

By Nancy Atkinson - August 27, 2022 04:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science