The three-body problem is one of Nature’s thorniest problems. The gravitational interactions and resulting movements of…
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Could We Replace Ingenuity With a Swarm of Robotic Bees?
Humans finally achieved controlled flight on another planet for the first time just a few years…
Mysterious Swirls on the Moon Could Be Explained by Underground Magma
In the latest chapter of “The Mystery of the Lunar Swirls,” planetary scientists have a new…
Robotic Rover Could Support Astronauts on Moonwalks
Robotic companions are a mainstay of sci-fi series everywhere. From R2D2 to Johnny 5, these characters…
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…