Blue Origin's Lunar Lander Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet
Reported by Universe Today
Before any spacecraft can survive the Moon, it has to survive something almost as brutal, a giant metal chamber in Houston that strips away every molecule of air and swings temperatures from scorching to freezing in minutes. Blue Origin's lunar lander just...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:43 +0000
The Loudest Planet Wins
Reported by Universe Today
We are closer than ever to detecting signs of life on another world. The James Webb Space Telescope is already ‘sniffing’ alien atmospheres, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built specifically to find biology beyond Earth. But a new paper ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:17 +0000
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VIII: Paradox? What Paradox?
Reported by Universe Today
In recent decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has seen a revival, and future surveys will benefit from new technologies. Similarly, our perception of what technologies an advanced civilization might use has expanded....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 21:48 +0000
The Galaxy That Forgot to Spin
Reported by Universe Today
Every galaxy we know of spins. It's one of those rules of the universe so fundamental that astronomers barely think about it anymore. So when the James Webb Space Telescope pointed at one of the most massive galaxies in the early universe and found…well ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 19:35 +0000
Did We Invent Dark Energy for Nothing?
Reported by Universe Today
For nearly thirty years, dark energy has been cosmology's great get out of jail free card, the invisible, mysterious force we invented to explain why the universe is expanding faster than it should be. Now a team of mathematicians says we may never have ne...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 19:26 +0000
It Took a Cosmic Village to Shape Early Galaxies
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An early galaxy cluster named after an Indian lake is teaching astronomers about influences on galaxy evolution in the infant Universe. Astronomer Ronaldo Laishram of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) used the Subaru Telescope’s wide...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 17:20 +0000