Universe Today (Page 75)

If Black Holes Evaporate, Everything Evaporates

By Brian Koberlein - June 09, 2023 02:06 PM UTC | Black Holes

Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes wouldn't last forever, eventually evaporating into a smear of particles. According to a new study, Hawking's theories don't go far enough.

Gemini North Returns to Service Just in Time to See a New Supernova

By Nancy Atkinson - June 09, 2023 10:17 AM UTC | Observing

New Detailed Images of the Sun from the World's Most Powerful Ground-Based Solar Telescope

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 08, 2023 10:55 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Triggered Star Birth in the Nessie Nebula

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 08, 2023 07:18 PM UTC | Stars

Phew, California's Largest Reservoir is Nearly Full

By Nancy Atkinson - June 08, 2023 08:08 AM UTC | Site News

NASA's Europa Clipper Taking "Message in a Bottle" to Jupiter

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 07, 2023 10:01 PM UTC | Missions

Is it Time for a New Definition of "Habitable?"

By Evan Gough - June 07, 2023 07:11 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Missed the Mars Livestream? Here's the Video

By Nancy Atkinson - June 07, 2023 05:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

JWST Shows How the Early Universe Was Furiously Forming Stars

By Evan Gough - June 07, 2023 05:18 PM UTC | Cosmology

SLS Could Launch a Sample Return Mission to Phobos and Deimos

By Andy Tomaswick - June 07, 2023 10:56 AM UTC | Space Exploration

20 Years of Mars Express Images Helped Build This Mosaic of the Red Planet

By Matthew Williams - June 06, 2023 08:03 PM UTC | Planetary Science

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express mission, the ESA has released a stunning color mosaic image of Mars.

There Are Hundreds of Mysterious Filaments at the Center of the Milky Way

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 06, 2023 06:00 PM UTC | Milky Way

JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far Away

By Evan Gough - June 06, 2023 04:54 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Airbus Developed a System To Extract Oxygen and Metal From Lunar Regolith

By Andy Tomaswick - June 06, 2023 10:29 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Researchers are Working on a Tractor Beam System for Space

By Evan Gough - June 05, 2023 06:54 PM UTC | Physics

New Satellite Successfully Beams Power From Space

By Matthew Williams - June 05, 2023 03:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Researchers at Caltech have successfully tested their space solar power demonstrator (SSPD), showing it can beam power from space to Earth.

The Latest JWST Image Pierces Through a Shrouded Star-Forming Galaxy

By Evan Gough - June 05, 2023 02:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic

It Might Take Space Telescopes to Finally Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology

By Andy Tomaswick - June 05, 2023 10:18 AM UTC | Cosmology

NASA Has a Plan to Power the Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - June 05, 2023 09:45 AM UTC | Space Policy

Starliner Faces New Delays for Crewed Flights to ISS

By Nancy Atkinson - June 05, 2023 08:20 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Jupiter's "Stripes" Change Color. Now We Might Know Why

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 03, 2023 02:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers are Searching for a Galaxy-Wide Transmitter Beacon at the Center of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - June 02, 2023 11:05 PM UTC | Milky Way

Researchers with the SETI Institute have monitored the center of the Milky Way for possible transmissions from a galactic beacon.

Betelgeuse is Almost 50% Brighter Than Normal. What's Going On?

By Evan Gough - June 02, 2023 03:48 PM UTC | Stars

Three New Astronauts Arrive at the Chinese Space Station, Including the Country's First Civilian

By Matthew Williams - June 02, 2023 03:33 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China's Shenzou-16 mission just delivered three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station, performing the most complicated docking maneuver ever attempted

These New Computer Simulations of the Sun are Hypnotic

By Evan Gough - June 01, 2023 06:15 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

JWST Scans an Ultra-Hot Jupiter's Atmosphere

By Evan Gough - June 01, 2023 03:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets

You Can Detect Tsunamis as They Push the Atmosphere Around

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 01, 2023 02:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Exactly How Massive is the Milky Way?

By Brian Koberlein - June 01, 2023 10:15 AM UTC | Milky Way

What is the mass of the Milky Way? What do you get if you add up all the stars, gas, dust, black holes, planets, and dark matter? It's a tricky problem since we're embedded inside the Milky Way.

If You're Going to Visit Venus, Why Not Include an Asteroid Flyby Too?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 31, 2023 11:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration

ESA is Testing How Iron Burns in Weightlessness

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 31, 2023 09:32 PM UTC | Physics

Here's How You Could Get Impossibly Large Galaxies in the Early Universe

By Matthew Williams - May 31, 2023 08:58 PM UTC | Extragalactic

A study by an Israeli team of astronomers offers a solution to the "impossibly massive" galaxies Webb observed.

UFO Panelists Say NASA Needs Better Data — and Help From AI

By Alan Boyle - May 31, 2023 05:05 PM UTC | Space Policy

A New Launch Complex Opens Up in the Ocean

By Matthew Williams - May 31, 2023 04:37 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The Spaceport Company successfully tested its prototype mobile sea platform, launching multiple rockets from the Gulf of Mexico

The Kepler Mission's Final Three Planets?

By Evan Gough - May 31, 2023 04:29 PM UTC | Exoplanets

There's a New Supernova in a Familiar Galaxy. You Can See it in a Small Telescope

By Brian Koberlein - May 31, 2023 01:38 PM UTC | Observing

Astronomers discover dozens of supernovae yearly, but seeing one bright and close is rare. If you have a small telescope and camera, you can take pictures of a supernova flaring in the famous Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).