Universe Today (Page 77)

Galactic Black Hole Winds Blow Up to a Third the Speed of Light. The Impact on Their Galaxies is Impressive.

By Matthew Williams - May 16, 2023 01:46 PM UTC | Extragalactic

A new study by the SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS (SUBWAYS) project explores the role of "space winds" in shaping galaxies.

New Clues to the Formation of Globular Clusters: Their Ultramassive Stars

By Brian Koberlein - May 16, 2023 12:34 PM UTC | Stars

New images from JWST have revealed the light from a globular cluster in this earliest epoch, showing that it contains large amounts of nitrogen produced by the explosions from early stars.

NASA Shuts Down the Lunar Flashlight Mission After it Fails to Go into Orbit

By Andy Tomaswick - May 16, 2023 10:54 AM UTC | Missions

NASA Tests a Robotic Snake That Could Explore Other Worlds

By Nancy Atkinson - May 16, 2023 10:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Hurray! Juice Deploys its Stuck Antenna

By Nancy Atkinson - May 16, 2023 08:39 AM UTC | Missions

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-creates-in-space-servicing-assembly-manufacturing-consortium">NASA is Getting Serious About Building and Assembling Future Missions... in Space</a>

By Andy Tomaswick - May 15, 2023 09:00 PM UTC | Space Exploration

What Cassini's "Grand Finale" Taught Us About Saturn's Interior

By Paul Sutter - May 15, 2023 04:47 PM UTC | Planetary Science

62 New Moons Found for Saturn

By Evan Gough - May 15, 2023 03:18 PM UTC | Planetary Science

ESA Wants Your Ideas for Living off the Land… on the Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - May 15, 2023 03:00 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Two Super-Earths Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star at the Edge of the Habitable Zone

By Brian Koberlein - May 15, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets

NASA's TESS mission has turned up hundreds of planets and planetary candidates, and here are two more.

The Moon Occults Jupiter Wednesday Morning for North America

By David Dickinson - May 15, 2023 11:29 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Be sure to set your alarm for early Wednesday morning, for one of the best occultations of 2023.

Confirmed. Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources are Really That Bright

By Andy Tomaswick - May 15, 2023 10:53 AM UTC | Extragalactic

Black Holes Might be Defects in Spacetime

By Paul Sutter - May 14, 2023 01:09 PM UTC | Black Holes

The Earth's Magnetosphere Could be Used as a Gravitational Wave Observatory

By Brian Koberlein - May 14, 2023 11:09 AM UTC | Physics

The magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter might be used to observe high-frequency gravitational waves.

New Photos Show Collapsed Chains of Craters on a Martian Volcano

By Nancy Atkinson - May 13, 2023 02:42 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Thinks They Can Give us 30 Minutes of Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth

By Andy Tomaswick - May 13, 2023 02:42 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

This Star Might be Orbiting a Strange "Boson Star"

By Paul Sutter - May 13, 2023 01:07 PM UTC | Stars

Perseverance Finds an Ancient, Fast Flowing River

By sjohnston - May 13, 2023 12:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

JWST Looks at the Atmosphere of a Stormy, Steamy Mini-Neptune

By Evan Gough - May 12, 2023 06:42 PM UTC | Exoplanets

New Images Reveal the Magnetic Fields in the Horsehead Nebula

By Matthew Williams - May 12, 2023 03:30 PM UTC | Stars

A high-school student and an international team of astronomers created the first-ever map of the Horsehead Nebula's magnetic field.

It Took Five Years and A Million Images to Make this Atlas of Stellar Nurseries

By Evan Gough - May 12, 2023 12:22 PM UTC | Stars

Dark Matter Can Make Dark Atoms

By Paul Sutter - May 12, 2023 07:13 AM UTC | Physics

China Has its Own Secret Space Plane, and it Just Landed

By Matthew Williams - May 11, 2023 05:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

China's mysterious experimental spaceplane (Shenlong) just returned to Earth after spending 276 days in orbit.

Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago

By Evan Gough - May 11, 2023 05:24 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Webb Examined an Asteroid Belt and Found More Than it Bargained For

By Evan Gough - May 10, 2023 03:25 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What if Titan Dragonfly had a Fusion Engine?

By Matthew Williams - May 10, 2023 01:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A team of Princeton scientists have shown how a Direct Fusion Drive could greatly enhance the Dragonfly's exploration efforts on Titan.

Meteorites Store a Magnetic Memory of the Early Solar System

By Brian Koberlein - May 10, 2023 01:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Magnets are a handy tool for finding meteorites, but they can also erase vital clues about the early solar system.

One in Ten Stars Ate a Jupiter (Or Bigger)

By Evan Gough - May 09, 2023 03:29 PM UTC | Stars

Building Planetary Systems That Could Last Forever

By Brian Koberlein - May 09, 2023 02:13 PM UTC | Exoplanets

An advanced civilization might use horseshoe orbits to bring their vacation spots closer to home.

NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 09, 2023 11:38 AM UTC | Astrobiology

Chasing SpaceX: The Commercial Space Race Gets a Reality Check

By Alan Boyle - May 08, 2023 08:44 PM UTC | Space Policy

We Can Only Bring 30 Samples of Mars Back to Earth. How Do We Decide?

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2023 07:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science

What Does the Milky Way Look Like?

By Matthew Williams - May 08, 2023 03:55 PM UTC | Milky Way

A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology.

JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang

By Brian Koberlein - May 08, 2023 02:12 PM UTC | Cosmology

The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't disprove the big bang.

LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There's a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful

By Matthew Williams - May 08, 2023 01:56 PM UTC | Telescopes

A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave astronomy!

Astronomers Watch a Star Gulp Down One of its Planets

By Evan Gough - May 08, 2023 01:54 PM UTC | Stars

JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity

By kuingul-gmail - May 07, 2023 09:16 PM UTC | Stars

China's Mars Rover Finds Recent Evidence of Water Near the Equator

By Matthew Williams - May 07, 2023 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Before going into hibernation, China's Zhurong rover found evidence that water recently existed in small patches on Mars (and might still!)

A Lack of Alien Signals Actually Tells Us a Lot

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - May 07, 2023 12:30 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Watch a SpaceX Fairing's Fiery Re-Entry Through the Atmosphere

By Nancy Atkinson - May 06, 2023 02:22 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Thirsty on the Moon? Just Throw Some Regolith in the Microwave

By Brian Koberlein - May 06, 2023 10:44 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Lunar colonists may use microwaves to extract water from the Moon's surface.

Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination

By Brian Koberlein - May 03, 2023 03:31 PM UTC | Black Holes

Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are.

May 5th's 'Teaser' Lunar Eclipse

By David Dickinson - May 03, 2023 01:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A 'barely there' lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening.