Category: The Universe

New Horizons probe captures images at record distance from Earth

These winter storm satellite images prove a “bomb cyclone” looks even scarier from space

We Probe The Universe From A Nickel Mine, And With Lots Of Video Calls

Dark streaks on Mars may not be caused by flowing water

Venus-Jupiter conjunction: How and where to watch the planetary event

The world’s largest telescope will unlock the universe’s oldest secrets

Newly-discovered lunar cave would be great for a moon base

Long-delayed Thirty Meter Telescope gets the go-ahead, for now

If Some Space Trash Is Treasure, How Will We Save It?

The universe’s most energetic particles have traveled a long way

Scientists recreate Neptune’s diamond rain using powerful lasers

Cassini will take five victory laps before plunging into Saturn

Asteroid family is as old as the Solar System itself

There’s a storm nearly the size of Earth raging on Neptune right now

This Map Shows Where People’s “Civic Space” Is Most Threatened

It’s unlikely that the TRAPPIST-1 planets support life

EVE Online starts putting players to work finding exoplanets

Astronomers spot the smallest star so far

What Does Lighting a Video Shoot Have to Do With the Expanding Universe?

An excess of ‘failed’ stars is a bad sign for alien life

Why To Get Excited About A Black Hole Crash 3 Billion Light Years Away

The search for a habitable second Earth

Listening to starlight: Our ongoing search for alien intelligence

Cassini probe survives first dive between Saturn and its rings

Most habitable planets may be completely covered in water

Watch the ESA trace 2 million stars’ journey across the skies

NASA probe Juno captures Jupiter’s poles in glorious detail

Hubble telescope finds black hole shot out of a distant galaxy

New Horizons scientists want to redefine what planets are

Ancient Ceres may have had plenty of ice volcanoes

Could We Live Inside Holographic Universe?

Magnetic fields could explain an ‘erratic’ neutron star

Keck Observatory’s exoplanet imager captures its first photos

Gamma ray telescope spots ancient, intense black holes

Study offers best evidence yet that we’re in a holographic universe

Green-hot galaxies reveal clues to the ancient universe

Hubble spots kamikaze comets plunging into a nearby star

Exoplanets may have carved dusty tracks around a young star

Mars Can Sustain Life; New Rock Ingredients Findings Reveal

Black hole detection is becoming much easier

Mars hides a gigantic ice sheet that may help astronauts

NASA says Ceres’ brightest crater is made of salt