The movement of star-forming gas in galaxies is a fundamental research question in astronomy. Galaxies are huge...
Universe Today
Love it or hate it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for...
We’ve been searching for life on Mars for a long time now, but so far we’ve come...
The latest mission to the innermost planet in the solar system hit a milestone last week. After...
A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first stars ignited – literally the “let...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft hit another milestone this summer, which was also a...
Earth’s surface water puts the planet into its own, privileged category among the Solar System’s bodies. Nowhere...
How to catch a luminous sky wonder of the modern space age. What used to be a...
The Giant Impact Hypothesis says that about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized world named Theia slammed...
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don’t have had theirs ejected during...
Halley’s comet captures the imagination in a way that few other astronomical objects do. When it last...
We know the universe is constantly expanding. We also know that gravitationally bound objects, such as solar...
Say what you want about the changes to the space industry that’s happened over the past 10-20...
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – space is hard. Another example, albeit lacking...
The COSMOS field, or Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field, is one of the most famous patches of...
Active black holes are pretty easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright x-rays, and the...
The MeerKAT radio telescope, composed of 64 dish antennas located in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, was...
A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can...
Out in the solar system, there is a giant rippling curtain of charged particles that is actually...
The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because...