Universe Today (Page 421)

Review: The Most Unknown

By David Dickinson - October 18, 2018 11:37 AM UTC | Site News

We recently came across a fascinating documentary that not only looks at some of the big questions today in multi-interdisciplinary science. We're talking about The Most Unknown, directed by Peabody-award winning filmmaker Ian Cheney

Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far

By Matthew Williams - October 17, 2018 04:34 PM UTC | Cosmology

Using the Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in western Australia, a team of researchers almost doubled the number of FRBs observed in our Universe

Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star

By Evan Gough - October 17, 2018 02:58 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 17, 2018 - Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager, JWST

By Fraser Cain - October 17, 2018 01:10 PM UTC | Missions

Here's What the First Images from the Event Horizon Might Look Like

By Evan Gough - October 16, 2018 07:47 PM UTC | Black Holes

The Event Horizon Telescope has completed its observations. Now scientists are crunching the data and hope to soon have the very first picture of a black hole's event horizon.

You've Got to Watch this Stunning NASA Video of Arctic Sea Ice. Now at its Lowest Levels

By Evan Gough - October 16, 2018 04:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

In the 60 years that NASA has been keeping track, the arctic seasonal sea ice is the thinnest and youngest it's ever been. It also covers a much smaller area.

Astronomers Get Ready, Another Artificial Star to Ruin Your Data is Coming. Artist is Planning to Launch a Giant, Unfolding Structure That'll be Bright in the Sky For a Few Months

By Matthew Williams - October 16, 2018 03:06 PM UTC | Observing

In collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art and some private aerospace companies, artists Trevor Paglen plans to launch the world's first satellite that has a strictly artistic purpose.

Plans for a Modular Martian Base that Would Provide its own Radiation Shielding

By Matthew Williams - October 16, 2018 02:03 PM UTC | Space Exploration

At this year's AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, engineer Marco Peroni presented his proposal for a modular Martian base that would provide its own radiation shielding.

The Path that MASCOT Took Across Asteroid Ryugu During its 17 Hours of Life

By Evan Gough - October 15, 2018 06:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

The tiny robot lander MASCOT did a fine job on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, and its zigzag path allowed it to gather important data on this ancient piece of rock.

Carnival of Space #582

By susie - October 15, 2018 03:02 PM UTC | Site News

Even Ganymede is Showing Tectonic Activity. We're Going to Need Another Icy Moon Orbiter

By Evan Gough - October 15, 2018 01:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study shows that the surface of Ganymede was once a very tectonically active place, with evidence of slip-faulting similar to the San Andreas Fault.

The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2018 10:19 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale

Next Generation Telescopes Could Use "Teleportation" to Take Better Images

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2018 02:24 PM UTC | Telescopes

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, quantum mechanics may allow for some truly-cutting edge astronomy in the near future.

What Neil Armstrong's Sons Really Think About the Movie "First Man"

By Nancy Atkinson - October 11, 2018 05:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Soyuz Launch Carrying Two Astronauts is Forced to Abort, Landing Safely Back on Earth

By Evan Gough - October 11, 2018 03:13 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two crew members to the ISS has experienced a booster failure. The craft executed an emergency landing and both crew are safe.

Ceres Rolled Over at Some Point in the Past

By Matthew Williams - October 11, 2018 02:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new study from the Planetary Science Institute, Ceres poles reoriented sometime in the past, which bolsters the case for it having an interior ocean.

Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 10, 2018 - Sean Carroll

By Fraser Cain - October 10, 2018 08:20 PM UTC | Site News

348 Years Ago, a French Astronomer Monk Might have Witnessed the Collision Between a White and Brown Dwarf Star

By Evan Gough - October 10, 2018 06:11 PM UTC | Stars

A collision between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf created the object we call CK Vulpeculae. It was first observed 348 years ago by French Monk Astronomer Per Dom Anthelme.

Astronomy Cast Ep. 501: Water Worlds Revisited

By susie - October 10, 2018 04:31 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Europa is Going to be Tough to Land on, it Could Have Towering Walls of Ice Spikes Across its Surface

By Matthew Williams - October 10, 2018 03:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new NASA-backed study, Europa's surface may be covered in towering icy spikes, which could make a landed mission there difficult.