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Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawai’i have found a mechanism occurring on...
Universe Today
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In February 1969, months before Apollo 11 lifted off, a fireball crossed the sky over Chihuahua and...
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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has been a source of fascination ever since the Voyager 1 and 2...
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The surface of the Moon is a bleak and forbidding place that could be hiding a lot...
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There is a question that often comes up at every public talk I do, and I have...
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It turns out, the world’s biggest dark matter detector may well be the planet you’re standing (or...
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Astrophysicists have observed the x-ray breakout shock from a distant supernova for only the second time in...
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*The Perseverance rover catches the Martian moon Phobos covering up the Earth. * Sure. It may not...
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The Habitable Zone concept is useful for understanding which worlds might, possibly, maybe, be habitable. It highlights...
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Tracking the debris orbiting at high velocity in space is only going to get harder over time....
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In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) is going to be a critical technical component of any human expansion out...
I’ll admit to using AI for things it was probably never designed for. When my van threw...
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Where would you land on Mars if the water had to be underneath you? It is not...
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Quasars are the brightest sustained objects in the universe, the cores of distant galaxies where a supermassive...
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Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we examine concepts that have been proposed since...
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Malta might be the last place one might expect there to be a convergence of archeoastronomy and...
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NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding...
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The spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has struck the Moon, illustrating the hazard...
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Homer Dávila Gutierrez, director of SKYCR.ORG, has identified a gravitational arc candidate in the galaxy cluster MACS...
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It’s almost show time. We’re just a few days away now, from the only total solar eclipse...