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…

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

Universe Today has recently investigated a myriad of scientific disciplines, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets,…

Earliest Supermassive Black Holes Were “Shockingly Normal”

The early Universe is a puzzling and—in many ways—still-unknown place. The first billion years of cosmic…

Asteroid Samples Were Once Part of a Wetter World

Nine months have passed since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned its samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth. The…

NASA astronauts to extend space station stay as engineers troubleshoot Boeing capsule : NPR

Boeing crew flight test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 flight…

The Milky Way’s eROSITA bubbles are large and distant

X-ray image of the eROSITA bubbles. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license In 2020, astronomers…

NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew ‘not stranded’ on ISS

Starliner docked with the ISS on June 6 for what was meant to be roughly a…

NASA astronauts will stay at the space station longer for more troubleshooting of Boeing capsule

This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the…

Existing Telescopes Could Directly Observe ‘ExoEarths…’ with a Few Tweaks

One proposal offers a unique method to directly image ExoEarths, or rocky worlds around nearby stars.…