Universe Today
Let the Robot Take the Wheel. Autonomous Navigation in Space
Tracking spacecraft as they traverse deep space isn’t easy. So far, it’s been done manually, with op ...View More
The Milky Way's Mass is Much Lower Than We Thought
How massive is the Milky Way? It’s an easy question to ask, but a difficult one to answer. Imagine a ...View More
Since Aliens Obey the Laws of Physics, Can We Guess What They Look Like?
Since time immemorial, humans have gazed up at the stars and wondered if we’re alone in the universe ...View More
It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up
It’s a basic fact we’ve all learned in school. Drop any object, be it a baseball, feather, or cat, a ...View More
A New Planet-Hunting Instrument Has Been Installed on the Very Large Telescope
Exoplanet studies have come a long way in a short time! To date, 5,523 exoplanets have been confirme ...View More
Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White Dwarfs
As the search for dark matter particles continues to yield nothing, astronomers continue to look at ...View More
Lose Yourself in the JWST’s Exquisite Image of Barnard’s Galaxy
There may come a day when we grow weary of JWST images. But it’s not today. Today, we can lose ourse ...View More
Want to Safely Watch the Sun With a Large Group? Get a Disco Ball
The upcoming solar eclipses and the current high sunspot activity means it’s a great time to observe ...View More
Colliding Moons Might Have Created Saturn’s Rings
If we could wind the clock back billions of years, we’d see our Solar System the way it used to be. ...View More
Is it Life, or is it Volcanoes?
Astronomers are working hard to understand biosignatures and how they indicate life’s presence on an ...View More
If Earth is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years
In 1960, while preparing for the first meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI ...View More
NASA Opens the Lid on OSIRIS-REx's Sample Capsule
On Sunday, September 23rd, the Sample Retrieval Capsule (SRC) from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed ...View More
How Do Lava Worlds Become Earth-Like, Living Planets?
Earth was once entirely molten. Planetary scientists call this phase in a planet’s evolution a magma ...View More
Day Has Returned, but India’s Lander and Rover have Failed to Wake Up
It looks like India’s Chandrayaan-3 succumbed to the cold, and its mission is over. The frigid lunar ...View More
Even Tiny Amounts of DNA on Mars Will Be Detectable
The Search for Life is focused on the search for biosignatures. Planetary life leaves a chemical fin ...View More
It’s Official. No More Astronomy at Arecibo
Even though the National Science Foundation announced last year that it would not rebuild or replace ...View More
Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube
Caves were some of humanity’s first shelters. Who knows what our distant ancestors were thinking as ...View More
Oops! you clicked on a spam email and added your info to what looked like a legit site
Picture this: a serene morning with a cup of coffee in hand, skimming through emails, and suddenly, ...View More
Oops! you clicked on a spam email and added your info to what looked like a legit site
Picture this: a serene morning with a cup of coffee in hand, skimming through emails, and suddenly, ...View More
Oops! you clicked on a spam email and added your info to what looked like a legit site
Picture this: a serene morning with a cup of coffee in hand, skimming through emails, and suddenly, ...View More
