Dead Planets Orbiting a Dead Star
Reported by Universe Today
When a star like our Sun reaches its end, it becomes a kind of zombie star called a white dwarf. These bodies have left fusion behind and will radiate only remnant heat for a long, long time. Before they become white dwarfs, they expand, engulf, and destro...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:04 +0000
NASA Invites Media to Crew Completion of Yearlong Mars Simulation
Reported by NASA
The four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year will exit their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after 378 days of isolation in a facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Health and performance...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:27 +0000
Massive Stellar Collisions Could Explain Early Supermassive Black Holes
Reported by Universe Today
Dense stellar environments were common in the early Universe. These environments fostered more numerous stellar collisions, and some of those would've been mergers that formed very massive stars. Those stars would've exploded as supernovae, becoming massiv...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:49 +0000
NASA’s Neo Surveyor Sunshade
Reported by NASA
A technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The sunshade structure, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide at its base, will keep...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:58 +0000
This Oddbal Reflective Lava World is Challenging to Understand
Reported by Universe Today
Exoplanets extremely close to their stars are expected to have lost their atmospheres. But one of them, TOI-561 b, seems to have a thick atmosphere. Understanding how this super-Earth has an atmosphere is challenging....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:02 +0000
Hubble Will Give the Roman Space Telescope a Helping Hand
Reported by Universe Today
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will use gravitational microlensing to study dark matter. But it's a wide-field survey telescope, and the venerable Hubble Space Telescope can do things it can't do. That's why the Hubble is lending a hand....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:17 +0000