Universe Today (Page 345)

Thanks to Perseverance, We're Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like

By Nancy Atkinson - January 15, 2021 02:02 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Has Given Up on Trying to Deploy InSight's Mole

By Evan Gough - January 14, 2021 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars is Still an Active World. Here's a Landslide in Nili Fossae

By Matthew Williams - January 14, 2021 04:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A image released by the MRO mission shows a landslide near the location where the Perseverance rover will land, illustrating how Mars is still a active world.

Astronomers see a Hint of the Gravitational Wave Background to the Universe

By Brian Koberlein - January 14, 2021 03:29 PM UTC | Cosmology

Astronomers have found evidence of faint gravitational waves using an array of pulsars in our galaxy.

The Roman Space Telescope's Version of the Hubble Deep Field Will Cover a 100x Larger Area of the Sky

By Evan Gough - January 14, 2021 01:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

With Funding From Jeff Bezos, MethaneSAT Picks Elon Musk's SpaceX for 2022 Launch

By Alan Boyle - January 13, 2021 10:04 PM UTC | Missions

Gateway Foundation Gives a Detailed Update on its Voyager Station Concept

By Matthew Williams - January 13, 2021 05:44 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The Gateway Foundation just released a video update for their Voyager Class space station, and announced that big news is coming in a f

Since There's no Up or Down in Space, How do our Brains Deal With This?

By Nancy Atkinson - January 13, 2021 03:24 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Will Solar Cycle 25 Dazzle or Fizzle in 2021?

By David Dickinson - January 13, 2021 11:39 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

A new study suggests that Solar Cycle 25 may be more powerful than previously predicted.

Astronomers can use Pulsars to Measure Tiny Changes of Acceleration Within the Milky Way, Scanning Internally for Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By Brian Koberlein - January 13, 2021 11:32 AM UTC | Milky Way

Dark matter within our galaxy is difficult to map, but a team of astronomers has used pulsars to measure its gravitational pull.

With its New Extension, Juno is Going to be Visiting Jupiter's Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - January 12, 2021 04:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A Robot Made of Ice Could Adapt and Repair Itself on Other Worlds

By Evan Gough - January 12, 2021 03:27 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Astronomers see Swirling Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarf

By Paul Sutter - January 11, 2021 10:29 PM UTC | Stars

The Mystery of Sunquakes is Deep; One Million Meters Deep!

By Ralph Crewe - January 11, 2021 10:01 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

SpaceX's Next Idea: to Catch Super Heavy Boosters With the Launch Tower

By Matthew Williams - January 11, 2021 07:12 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new animation shows how SpaceX will "catch" the first stage boosters of their Starship, allowing for faster turnaround and more flights to space.

This is the Fireworks Galaxy. It's had ten Supernovae in the Last Century Alone

By Paul Sutter - January 11, 2021 06:44 PM UTC | Extragalactic

SpaceX Releases a Recap Video of their SN8 Making its Hop Test!

By Matthew Williams - January 09, 2021 05:59 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX just released a recap video of their SN8 making its first-ever high-altitude hop test. Soon enough, the SN9 will be doing the same!

Winning Urban Farming Ideas for Mars!

By Matthew Williams - January 09, 2021 03:34 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The 2020 Mars City Design challenge inspired some truly innovative ideas for urban farming and living sustainably on Mars!

These Bizarre Cloud Patterns are von Kármán's Vortices, Caused by the air Wrapping Around Tall Islands

By Evan Gough - January 08, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Stellar Flares May Not Condemn a Planet's Habitability

By Evan Gough - January 08, 2021 12:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets