Exomoons: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has had the recent privilege of investigating a multitude of scientific disciplines, including impact…

What’s Next for the Event Horizon Telescope? Twelve Possible New Targets

Both the Milky Way and a galaxy known as M87 have supermassive black holes at their…

Neutron Stars: Why study them? What makes them so fascinating?

Over the last several months, Universe Today has explored a plethora of scientific disciplines, including impact…

Galaxies Filled With Old Stars Seen Shortly After the Big Bang

How can young galaxies in the early Universe have ancient stars? That’s the question a team…

Star formation theories supported by first-of-its-kind discovery

NASA’s NIRCam has directly captured the alignment of bipolar jets in a group of protostellar outflows…

Mars meteorite impact rate uncovered by new study using NASA’s InSight

A new study combined orbital imagery with seismological data from NASA’s Mars InSight lander to derive…

The Space Station Now Has Blisteringly Fast Internet

NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation programme (SCaN) has demonstrated the first two way end-to-end laser relay…

Merging Galaxies Make for Explosive Star Formation

The Gemini Observatory has unveiled a striking new image that shows star formation within the irregular…

Determining the Safest Martian Caves for Future Astronauts

When astronauts land on Mars someday, they might have to live in lava caves or lava…

NASA Releases a New 3D Animation of the Lunar Gateway

To get to the Moon, NASA is building a Lunar Gateway in orbit to facilitate easier…