Universe Today (Page 277)

Astronomy Jargon 101: Albedo

By Paul Sutter - December 15, 2021 10:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomy Jargon 101: Absolute Magnitude

By Paul Sutter - December 14, 2021 07:34 PM UTC | Stars

Twin Stars Prove Einstein at Least 99.99% Right

By Matthew Williams - December 14, 2021 07:19 PM UTC | Physics

A 16-year study by an international team of astronomers has confirmed Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and witnessed some predicted effects that were never before seen.

Forget That Planet That Orbits Every 16 Hours. That's so Last Week. Now Astronomers Have Found a Metal Planet That Orbits its Star EVERY 8 HOURS

By Brian Koberlein - December 14, 2021 03:03 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Astronomers have found a small, hot planet that might be almost solid iron.

Life on Earth Needed Iron. Will it be the Same on Other Worlds?

By Evan Gough - December 14, 2021 01:26 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Gravitational Waves Could Explain why There's More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe

By Andy Tomaswick - December 14, 2021 10:30 AM UTC | Cosmology

A Spacecraft Orbiting the Moon Just Captured an Image of Saturn

By Andy Tomaswick - December 14, 2021 10:02 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Gives Axiom Space Another Opening to Fly Private Astronauts to Space Station

By Alan Boyle - December 13, 2021 11:57 PM UTC | Space Policy

One Feature Mars has That we Don't: Polar Megadunes

By Matthew Williams - December 13, 2021 06:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New renderings from Kevin M Gill show a unique feature on Mars: the northern polar Chasma Boreale Megadunes!

Even Really Massive Stars Seem to Have Planets

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2021 04:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

This Incredible Photo of the Sun is Made up of 150,000 Individual Photographs

By Nancy Atkinson - December 13, 2021 04:13 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

M87's Supermassive Black Hole is Spewing out a Spiraling jet of Material

By Andy Tomaswick - December 13, 2021 08:21 AM UTC | Black Holes

Not Just Water, There Could be Frozen Carbon Dioxide on the Moon too

By Andy Tomaswick - December 12, 2021 09:38 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Parker Solar Probe Hurtles Past the Sun, Making its Closest Approach so far

By Andy Tomaswick - December 12, 2021 09:08 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The Constellation Fornax

By tammy-plotner - December 10, 2021 05:30 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Galaxies Have Been Found With no Dark Matter at all

By Matthew Williams - December 10, 2021 04:51 PM UTC | Extragalactic

According to new research led by Dutch astronomers, there may be lots of galaxies in the Universe that have no Dark Matter.

After 10 Days of Dangerous, Careful Work, James Webb has Been Fully Fueled up

By Matthew Williams - December 10, 2021 02:01 PM UTC | Missions

After many MANY delays, the James Webb Space Telescope is fully-fueled and ready for the final stage of preparations before launch (still on for Dec. 22nd)!