Universe Today
Hubble Sees a Glittering Jewel in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the Jewel is Disappearing
ESA's Upcoming Mission Will Tell us if Venus is Still Volcanically Active
In Case you Missed it, Here are Some Amazing Pictures of Mars Hiding Behind the Moon
Astronomers Spot Three Interacting Systems with Twin Discs
Using the SPHERE instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers observed how interaction between disks affects the evolution of planetaary systems.
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How Growing Giant Planets Fight for Food
The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty
We Have Ignition! Fusion Breakthrough Raises Hopes — and Questions
Asteroids Didn't Create the Moon's Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did
Orion Splashes Down in the Pacific Ocean, Completing the Artemis I Mission
The Artemis I mission has splashed down, ending its mission and validating the technology that will take astronauts back to the Moon.
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Webb Completes its First "Deep Field" With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?
Black Holes Shouldn't be Able to Merge, but Dozens of Mergers Have Been Detected. How Do They Do It?
Perhaps a Supervoid Doesn't Explain the Mysterious CMB Cold Spot
A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years
Life on Proxima b Is Not Having a Good Time
A Supercomputer Climate Model is so Accurate it Predicted the Weather Patterns Seen in the Famous 1972 "Blue Marble" Image of Earth
This Interactive Tool Lets you Simulate Asteroid Impacts Anywhere on Earth
Will This be the Iconic Picture From Artemis I?
To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun. A Lightweight Solar Sail Could Make it Feasible
Perseverance's Latest Sample is Just Crumbled Regolith. When Scientists get Their Hands on it, we'll Learn so Much About how to Live on Mars
A New Way to Produce Primordial Black Holes in the Early Universe
Iconic Earthrise By Artemis 1, Rule-Breaking GRB, SpaceX Launches Starshield
We Could Simulate Living in Lunar Lava Tubes in Caves on Earth
NASA Tests a Solar Sail Segment of its Enormous Solar Cruiser Mission
A team led by NASA Marshall was selected to build a technology demonstrator called the Solar Cruiser to mature solar sail technology
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If Dark Matter is Made of Axions, This Could be the Detector That Finds Them
This Hellish Planet Orbits its Star Every 18 Hours. How Did it Get There?
A new 3D map of the Milky Way Uses close to 66,000 Stars and Reveals New Details About the Shape of our Galaxy
A new study by a team of Polish astronomers has revealed details about the shape of the Milky Way's center and disk.
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Most Exoplanets Suffer Worse Space Weather Than We Do
Comets Leave Dusty Trails That Surround the Solar System
Want to Learn More About Dark Matter? Send an Atomic Clock Close to the Sun
If dark matter exists in our solar system, atomic clock spacecraft might reveal its presence.
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Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew
Astronomers Have Found Two Temperate Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Red Dwarf
There's a Giant Magma Plume on Mars, Bulging the Surface out Across a Vast Region
Scientists find more evidence that a magma plume could exist beneath Elysium Planitia, proving Mars might still be volcanically active
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Trading Spaces: How Swapping Stars Create Hot Jupiters
Meteorites Bathed in Gamma Rays Produce More Amino Acids and Could Have Helped Life get Going on Earth
SpaceX Launches 'Starshield'. A Quiet Announcement With A Huge Potential
Colliding Neutron Stars can Generate Long Gamma-ray Bursts
"Early Dark Energy" Could Explain the Crisis in Cosmology
A new study considers how the presence of Early Dark Energy could help resolve one of the biggest cosmological mysteries today.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Find the Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts
The Geminids Will be Peaking on December 14th. They're Usually the Most Active Meteor Shower Every Year
Will We Ever Go Back to Explore the Ice Giants? Yes, If We Keep the Missions Simple and Affordable
A new Hubble Image Reveals a Shredded Star in a Nearby Galaxy
Evidence of a Megatsunami on Mars
Not Just Stars. Gaia Mapped a Diverse and Shifting Universe of Variable Objects
Mars at Opposition 2022: The Full Moon Occults Mars Wednesday Night
A rare event transpires Wednesday night, as the Full Moon occults Mars near opposition.
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Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array
SOFIA Fails to Find Phosphine in the Atmosphere of Venus, But the Debate Continues
Hubble Spots Two Open Clusters. One is Also an Emission Nebula
Ground Telescopes can Adapt to Satellite Megaconstellations if They get Accurate Telemetry Data
Want to Colonize Space? Unleash the Power of Microbes
By Looking Back Through Hubble Data, Astronomers Have Identified six Massive Stars Before They Exploded as Core-Collapse Supernovae
Using images from the Hubble Snapshot Program and archival data, a team of astronomers has located the progenitor stars of six supernovae.
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