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JWST Sees Smoking Gun for Black Hole Mergers in the Virgo Cluster A pair of dwarf galaxies in the giant Virgo Cluster show what can happen when these stellar cities interact. Scientists at the University of Michigan focused the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) onto the galaxies NGC 4486B and UCD736 and found each of them sporting “overmassive” black holes at or near their hearts. Those supermassive black holes comprise a large fraction of each galaxy’s mass. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

The World Welcomes the Crew of Artemis II Home! After achieving their record-breaking 10-day flight around the Moon, the crew of the Artemis II mission returned home on Friday, April 10th, 2026. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Planetary Exploration With Four-Legged Rovers Carrying Only Two Instruments European researchers tested four-legged semi-autonomous rovers that carry only two instruments. These capable and agile robots could be part of the future exploration of Mars and the Moon. Their autonomy means they can do more with fewer instructions. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Catching the 2026 April Lyrid Meteor Shower April flowers mean one thing to springtime sky-watchers: it’s time for the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrids are always a good bet, and always make the top ten list for annual meteor showers. And to top it off, 2026 is a favorable year for the Lyrids, with the waxing crescent Moon mostly out of the way. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Stardust in the Clouds of Venus. Venus has been hiding a secret for fifty years. Just below its main cloud deck sits a mysterious layer of haze that spacecraft first detected in the 1970s and nobody could explain where it came from. Now a research team in Japan has finally cracked it, and the answer comes from the last place most people would think to look! Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Magnetism Frozen in Time. Every star you’ve ever looked at is hiding a magnetic secret and it may have been hiding it since birth. A new theoretical study has connected, for the first time, the magnetic fields detected deep inside dying red giants with the magnetism found at the surfaces of their long dead remnants. These fields may be ancient fossils, born early in a star’s life and surviving billions of years of violent transformation completely intact. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

The Sharpest Eyes on the Sun The Sharpest Eyes on the Sun. The Sun is the most studied star in the universe, yet some of its most violent behaviour remains stubbornly out of reach. Solar flares, explosive eruptions that can disrupt satellites, knock out power grids and bathe astronauts in radiation release enormous bursts of X-rays that carry vital clues about what drives them. Now, a team of Japanese engineers has built the sharpest X-ray telescope ever to fly on a solar mission, and the technology it has pioneered could soon fit inside a satellite the size of a shoebox. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

A New Eye Opens at the Top of the World. Thirty four years ago, a group of Cornell scientists looked at a remote Chilean mountaintop and imagined what might be built there one day. That day has arrived. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has just opened its eyes on the universe from one of the most extreme observatory sites ever chosen, and the science it promises to deliver from the first moments after the Big Bang to the hidden nurseries of newborn stars. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Are Neutrinos Their Own Evil Twins? Part 4: Majorana’s Mystery In 1937, Ettore Majorana asked a question nobody else was even thinking about: does a particle have to have a distinct antiparticle? For neutrinos — which carry no charge — the answer might be no. They might be their own antiparticles. Deep underground right now, experiments are watching atoms decay, waiting for the signal that would prove it. So far: nothing. But the case is not closed. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Exploring the Moon’s Shadowy Craters With Nuclear-Powered Rovers Rovers equipped with Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs), aka. nuclear reactors, could effectively explore the craters in the Moon’s southern polar region. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

The Incredible Shrinking Neutrino. They are the most abundant particles in the universe, yet we barely know they exist. Neutrinos stream through everything, through walls, through planets and even through you…. in their billions every second, leaving no trace. We’ve known for decades that they have mass, but pinning down exactly how much has defeated physicists for years. Now, the most sensitive experiment ever built has pushed our knowledge to a new frontier, and what it found raises a profound question about why these ghostly particles are so extraordinarily light. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Reading the Moon’s Buried Past. The lunar south pole is where humanity plans to build its first permanent outpost but we still don’t fully understand what lies beneath the surface. A new study has used radar to peer below the ground in one of the Moon’s most complex and battered regions and what it’s finding raises important questions about the geological minefield that future astronauts will be navigating. Ancient impacts, frozen melt sheets, and billions of years of overlapping debris may complicate our plans more than we thought. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

The Universe’s Most Powerful Telescope. When a massive star explodes on the far side of the universe, the light from that explosion normally fades long before it reaches us. But occasionally, the universe conspires to help. A newly discovered supernova has been caught using the gravity of an entire galaxy as a natural magnifying glass, boosting its light by at least a hundred times and revealing a stellar death that would otherwise have been completely invisible. It is the most magnified supernova ever found, and it opens a remarkable new window onto the distant universe. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →