Can alien civilizations detect humanity?
One of the fascinating things about being a human in this age is that we can do more than wonder about other life and...
Scientists discover three iron rings around young star, hinting at how planets are born
Imagine a giant cosmic factory where planets are born.
That's what astronomers have recently observed, and it's pretty exciting!
Using a powerful telescope in Chile, they've...
Titan’s “magic islands” could be floating blobs of organic solids
When the Cassini spacecraft returned radar scans of the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, the results were mindblowing.
It revealed giant lakes or seas of...
Is oxygen the cosmic key to alien technology
In the quest to understand the potential for life beyond Earth, researchers are widening their search to encompass not only biological markers, but also...
Should we send humans to Pluto?
Universe Today has examined the potential for sending humans to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, the planet Venus, and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, all despite...
Hubble watches an exoplanet atmosphere change over three years
If you want to know more about an exoplanet atmosphere, watch how it changes over time. That’s the mantra of a group of astronomers...
GJ 367b is another dead world orbiting a red dwarf
It’s not looking good for red dwarf habitability, and that’s nothing new.
Astronomers studied the atmosphere of the often-mentioned exoplanet GJ 367b and found, well,...
Want to find life? See what’s missing in an atmosphere
The world runs on carbon.
Not just fossil-fuel-driven human society, but all life on Earth. Carbon-based organic molecules are a part of every living thing...
The oldest known spiral galaxy has ripples like the surface of a pond
Astronomers have detected pond-like ripples across the gaseous disk of an ancient galaxy.
What caused the ripples, and what do they tell us about the...
The most massive neutron stars probably have cores of quark matter
Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Electrons are a type of fundamental particle, but protons and neutrons are composite particles made...