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Satellite Events for Tonight

Fate of Water-Rich Planets Around White Dwarfs

Reported by Universe Today

Can water-rich exoplanets survive orbiting white dwarf stars, the latter of which are remnants of Sun-like stars? This is what a recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the likelihood of sma...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:40 +0000

Mapping the Universe's Largest Objects

Reported by Universe Today

A team of scientists has released a new survey mapping massive galaxy clusters, some of the largest structures in the universe, to test whether our fundamental understanding of the laws of the universe need revision. The analysis, using six years of Dark E...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:26 +0000

The Hidden Gas That Builds Stars

Reported by Universe Today

Astronomers have created the first large scale map of dark molecular gas in the Milky Way, revealing vast networks of invisible star forming material that have so far have remained undetected. Using the Green Bank Radio Telescope to observe faint signals f...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:15 +0000

Building Homes Beyond Earth

Reported by Universe Today

A new study has reviewed how space habitat designs have evolved from inflatable bubbles to 3D-printed structures built from Martian dust. The research traces how engineers have wrestled with extreme temperatures, the bombardment of radiation, and the chall...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:06 +0000

Spying Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Near Perihelion

Reported by Universe Today

Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS isn’t really hiding near perihelion this week, as amateur astronomers reveal. Don’t believe the breathless ballyhoo that you’re currently reading around the web about interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. In a...
  • By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:30 +0000

Fifty Years of Dark Matter

Reported by Universe Today

In the 1970’s Vera Rubin didn’t set out to upend modern cosmology....
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:58 +0000