When spacecraft perform vertical landing and takeoff maneuvers from the lunar surface, the results are very messy!...
Universe Today
When we make our home on other worlds, who will be in charge? Will it be an...
White dwarfs are the remnants of a stars like our Sun. For their size—they’re roughly the size...
Massive galaxies like the Milky Way have a retinue of smaller, dim satellites on their outskirts. They’re...
Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern Universe are the result...
The Solar System’s asteroids are sometimes referred to as fossils because they preserve evidence of the conditions...
Starry Night, the iconic painting by legendary Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh, has inspired debate among art historians...
The planet Mars shares many landforms and weather patterns with the Earth, including changing seasons, volcanoes, canyons,...
The dwarf planet Ceres is arguably one of the most overlooked and underappreciated planetary objects in the...
NASA plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028 for the first time since Apollo...
Planetary defense is a growing concern among the scientific community, as efforts have been made to design...
We all know that black holes can collide. It has happened since black holes began to form,...
An international team led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast has made a discovery that has eluded...
Mars is the subject of an ongoing, decades-long effort to understand its past. Its potential ancient habitability...
![This artist's illustration shows two jets from a GRB emitted in opposite directions. The jets lose energy and fade into longer wavelengths as they travel through the surrounding medium. Image Credit: By NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones - http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/10sep08.html [1]Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by TheDJ using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8807284](https://astrobitica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GRB080319B_illustration_NASA_20261030_141904-768x750.jpg)
Every photon that reaches us tells us something about the Universe. Most of them come from the...
Remember the big solar storm back in May 2024? The one that caused auroras as far south...
Studying the interiors of planets is essential for understanding planetary formation, evolution, and their ability to potentially...
Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) zeroed in on...
The Cat’s Head nebula gets its name from its appearance: it looks like a cat sitting so...
Welcome back to our ongoing series on the Brief-ish History of METI, where we examine the rise,...