A Star Passed Through the Oort Cloud Less Than 500,000 Years Ago. It Wasn’t the Only One.

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A New Space Telescope will Map the Universe and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids

Can we secure our place in the Solar System? Not in any absolute sense because nature…

Finally! Blue Origin’s New Glenn Goes Vertical on the Launch Pad

If you think about space travel and the means of escaping the confines of the Earth…

Anti-Satellite Weapons Will Threaten Everyone’s Access to Space

It’s a headline straight out of the movies yet the White House has recently confirmed it…

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Moon Lander Sends Faint Signal

Intuitive Machines‘ Odysseus lander made space history today — becoming the first commercial spacecraft to survive…

Solar Physics: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has investigated the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, and astrobiology, and…

If Hycean Worlds Really Exist, What are Their Oceans Like?

Astronomers have been on the hunt for a new kind of exoplanet in recent years –…

Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters

Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they’re gorging on too much material, they can…

We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks

The conditions for life throughout the Universe are so plentiful that it seems reasonable to presume…

Astroscale’s Satellite is Now Chasing Down a Real Piece of Space Debris

Space debris is a thing.. It seems whether we explore the Earth or space we leave…