Universe Today
NASA and Axiom Space Do a Partial Reveal of the Spacesuit That Will be Worn on the Moon
It's Time to Start Planning Your 2023/2024 Eclipse Adventures
Pluto Team Updates Science From the Solar System's Edge
Warm Carbon Increased Suddenly in the Early Universe. Made by the First Stars?
New research shows that carbon was more abundant in the early Universe than previously thought, a find that could have drastic implications for theories on cosmic evolution.
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Even the Calmest Red Dwarfs are Wilder than the Sun
Exploring Lava Tubes on Other Worlds Will Need Rovers That Can Work Together
JWST Sees So Many Galaxies, and It's Just Getting Started
Finding Life in the Solar System Means Crunching a Lot of Data. The Perfect Job for Machine Learning
Don't Panic Over the Risk of an Asteroid Smashup in 2046
A Distant Galaxy Ate All of its Friends. Now It's All Alone
An international team of astronomers discovered a "fossil galaxy" that consume its neighbors, the farthest observed to date!
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Researchers Build a Telescope with a Flat Lens
A Human Migration to Space is NOT so Inevitable, says New Research
A new study looks at what it takes to survive beyond Earth, raising serious questions about whether or not human migrations to space is "Inevitable."
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Christiaan Huygens' Telescope Lenses Tell Us He Was Nearsighted
China's Giant Rocket, Dark Big Bang, Next Bright Comet
Water's Epic Journey to Earth Began Before the Sun Formed
Mars Has Bizarre "Swiss Cheese" Terrain. You can Thank Water, Carbon Dioxide and 500,000 years of Climate History for That
Astronauts Could Clear Lunar Dust Away with Nitrogen Spray
Want Artemis to Succeed? Virtual Reality Can Help
Look out, Starship! China is Building a Massive Reusable Rocket!
China just showed off the massive storage tank that will be part of the super-heavy launch vehicle, the Long March 9.
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NASA Restores a Spacecraft by Turning it Off and Then On Again
Strange Green Lines Above Hawaii was Probably a Chinese Satellite
A Helicopter is Going to Titan. Could an Airplane be Next?
What Time is It on the Moon? It May Get its Own Timezone
Curiosity Sees Spectacular Crepuscular Rays in Martian Clouds
China's Rover Used Radar to Look Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars. What Did it Find?
2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: a Bright Comet for the End of 2024?
New Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may put on a show at the end of next year.
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TESS Shows That Even Small Stars Can Host Giant Planets
A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole
A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy, and concluded that it orbits a intermediate-mass black hole.
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The Neutron Star That Thinks It's a Black Hole
Are There Better Ways to Communicate with Mars?
Want to Soar to the Stratosphere? Japan Joins the Balloon Tourism Race
Hubble's Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images
Stars Can Eat Their Planets...and Spit Them Back Out Again
Watch a Baby Planet Carve Out a Home for Itself
The Earth has an Even More Inner Core, and it's a Ball of Solid Metal
Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of a fifth layer in Earth's interior: an innermost-inner core!
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The Universe May Have Started with a Dark Big Bang
How do Black Holes Make a Shadow?
Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from Juno, With More to Come
An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds
It Would Take Hubble 85 Years to Match What Nancy Grace Roman Will See in 63 Days
A NASA-led team of researchers created a simulation that demonstrates what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see.
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Astronomers Go Hunting for Mysterious Q-balls
Why are Earth's Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
ESA's Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter's unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system's innermost world.
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A Very Young Star is Forming Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers spotted a young, massive star orbiting very close to Sagittarius A*, which was previously thought to be impossible.
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The Dark Energy Camera Captures the Remains of an Ancient Supernova
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of the galaxy.
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Astronomers Prepare for a Total View of Total Solar Eclipses
Blue Origin is Building Solar Cells out of (Simulated) Lunar Regolith
Spectacular Night Launch Sends SpaceX Crew 6 to the Space Station
