If Venus Had An Ancient Moon, It Was Doomed
Reported by Universe Today
Earth has a big beautiful Moon, while Venus, its 'sister planet', doesn't. Why is that? Did it ever have one? If it did, new research shows it was never going to last very long....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:41 +0000
NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon Night
Reported by NASA
NASA will host an International Observe the Moon Night celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Internati...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:55 +0000
From 10 to 22 years: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Mission Has Just Been Extended.
Reported by Universe Today
More good news for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The telescope's first mid-course correction was extremely efficient, using only 10% of the fuel allotted for it. This efficiency, coupled with other factors, means the powerful space telescope wi...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:22 +0000
If Black Holes Have Hair, We Will See It in the Ringdown of Their Mergers
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Researchers have found that if black holes have certain features, known as "hair," then we could prove it by observing the gravitational ringdown of merging black holes. Future studies could test the no-hair theorem of general relativity....
- By: Brian Koberlein (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/brian)
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:34 +0000
ALMA is Watching a Massive Binary Star System Form
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers used 8 years of observations to create a 3D image of a very young, very massive binary star as it forms. The image shows that the disks in the system are all misaligned. Those misalignments, together with the orbit, are clues to the system's ch...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:16 +0000
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with NASA
Reported by NASA
In April, the world watched as four humans circled the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with NASA’s Artemis II mission. On Saturday, Sept. 19, the public is invited to look up again with NASA events across the country, including the Internati...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:15 +0000