Universe Today (Page 99)

Tidal Heating Could Make Exomoons Much More Habitable (and Detectable)

By Matthew Williams - June 30, 2022 06:50 PM UTC | Exoplanets

A new study shows how the study of tidal heating in exomoons could greatly expand the search for life in the Universe.

Red Supergiant Stars Bubble and Froth so Much That Their Position in the Sky Seems to Dance Around

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 30, 2022 05:59 PM UTC | Stars

This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems

By Evan Gough - June 30, 2022 04:14 PM UTC | Stars

The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 30, 2022 08:50 AM UTC | Physics

A Dying Star's Last Act was to Destroy all Its Planets

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 29, 2022 07:26 PM UTC | Stars

The Rings of Uranus and Neptune Could Help map Their Interiors

By Andy Tomaswick - June 29, 2022 06:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images

By Evan Gough - June 29, 2022 03:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Cygnus Boosts the International Space Station for the First Time. NASA Can Now Potentially Keep the Station Aloft Without Russia's Progress Spacecraft

By Nancy Atkinson - June 29, 2022 12:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Record 'Fast Nova' Flares Over a Single Day

By David Dickinson - June 29, 2022 10:17 AM UTC | Stars

A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.

A Star has Grown Spiral Arms

By Nancy Atkinson - June 28, 2022 06:19 PM UTC | Stars

Curiosity Finds Life-Crucial Carbon in Mars Rocks

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 28, 2022 06:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Rocket Lab Launches NASA's CAPSTONE Mission to the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - June 28, 2022 04:08 PM UTC | Missions

Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried up From Down Below

By Evan Gough - June 28, 2022 01:37 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way

By Andy Tomaswick - June 27, 2022 10:54 PM UTC | Milky Way

We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves

By Matthew Williams - June 27, 2022 03:48 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes.

Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 09:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Giant Sunspot AR3038 has Doubled in Size and is Pointed Right at Earth. Could be Auroras Coming

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 06:31 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Remember That Rocket That was Going to Crash Into the Moon? Scientists Think They've Found the Crater

By sjohnston - June 26, 2022 06:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Supernovae Were Discovered in all These Galaxies

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic

VY Canis Majoris is Dying, and Astronomers are Watching

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 03:29 PM UTC | Stars

NASA Funds the Development of a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon That Would Last for 10 Years

By Andy Tomaswick - June 26, 2022 10:57 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Amazing Flaky Martian Rocks Were Formed in a Stream or a Small Pond

By Matthew Williams - June 25, 2022 06:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mars Curiosity rover continues to make impressive scientific findings as it gets closer to marking its tenth anniversary on Mars!

Despite its draining power, NASA's InSight Mars lander is determined to squeeze as much science as it can until the very last moment

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 25, 2022 05:57 PM UTC | Planetary Science

More Rocket Launches Could Damage the Ozone Layer

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 24, 2022 09:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Says It's Satisfied With Rehearsal for SLS Moon Rocket Launch

By Alan Boyle - June 24, 2022 08:03 PM UTC | Missions

SpaceX is now Constructing the Starship Launch Tower at Cape Canaveral

By Matthew Williams - June 24, 2022 02:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX is building another "Mechazilla" launch tower at Launch Complex-39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Recent Supernovae Produced Giant Cavities in the Orion Nebula

By Evan Gough - June 24, 2022 02:16 PM UTC | Stars

Astronomers Find a Brand new Pulsar That's Probably Less Than 14 Years old

By Brian Koberlein - June 24, 2022 09:39 AM UTC | Stars

Astronomers have discovered a neutron star so young it's barely a teenager.

BepiColombo's Second Mercury Flyby

By David Dickinson - June 24, 2022 09:27 AM UTC | Planetary Science

BepiColombo's stunning close pass by Mercury on Thursday provides a prelude of what's to come.

If Bacteria Drink Kombucha, They Stand a Better Chance of Survival on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - June 24, 2022 09:19 AM UTC | Astrobiology

South Korea is now a Space-Faring Nation With the Orbital Launch of Their Homegrown Nuri Rocket

By Matthew Williams - June 23, 2022 06:10 PM UTC | Space Policy

South Korea just became the 11th member of the space club, and the seventh nation to launch a commercial payload!

Do Ancient Coins Record the Supernova of 1054?

By Andy Tomaswick - June 23, 2022 03:58 PM UTC | Stars

64 Radio Telescopes Come Together to act as a Single Giant Observatory

By Matthew Williams - June 23, 2022 03:25 PM UTC | Telescopes

The MeerKAT array just combined the power of its 64 radio telescopes to create a single telescope, which is already allowing for cutting-edge cosmological research!

Plenty of Examples That Giant Galaxies Like the Milky Way Formed Through Mergers

By Evan Gough - June 23, 2022 02:33 PM UTC | Milky Way

Chinese Astronomers Detect an Interesting (But NOT Alien) Signal With the FAST Radio Observatory

By Matthew Williams - June 22, 2022 12:28 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Unfortunately, China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) did NOT detect possible alien signals, only radio interference from Earth.

This Tiny Dot is one of the Biggest, Most Active Galaxy Superclusters Ever Seen. It Was Already a Monster Shortly After the Big Bang

By Nancy Atkinson - June 22, 2022 12:11 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats

By Brian Koberlein - June 22, 2022 10:58 AM UTC | Astrobiology

The famous Wow Signal might be a repeating radio burst, and astronomers might soon prove it.

Charon's Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 22, 2022 01:11 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes

By Nancy Atkinson - June 21, 2022 05:44 PM UTC | Extragalactic

Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?

By Evan Gough - June 21, 2022 04:15 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Gaia's Massive Third Data Release is out!

By Matthew Williams - June 21, 2022 03:15 PM UTC | Milky Way

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) has been released, and is already leading to some major breakthroughs in astronomy!

This is What the Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Look Like

By Evan Gough - June 17, 2022 02:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Using the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Would Let Us See Exoplanets With Incredible Resolution

By Nancy Atkinson - June 17, 2022 01:34 PM UTC | Exoplanets