Astronomy

Quantum tunnels are also macroscopic

The three Nobel Prize winners in 2025 proved for the first time that quantum tunnels are possible on a macroscopic scale. © Johan Jarnestad/The...

Riddle around the dark energy

Investigations Mittles Desi (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) at the telescope on the Kitt Peak in Arizona should contribute to understanding dark energy. © 4Kodiak/iStock ...

The hot youth of the moon

His geological early early time was more turbulent than previously thought: when the young moon removed from the earth, he got violent volcanism into...

Gravitational wave event confirms two theories about black holes

The league detectors in the USA captured the gravitational waves of a fusion of black holes, which confirmed two fundamental theories. © Maggie Chiang/...

Perseverance rover finds potential biosignature

Close up of the "Leopardflecken" on a rock in the Neretva Vallis river valley on Mars. The minerals and molecules in these spots could...

What comes after the ISS?

The days of the ISS are numbered. New room stations should take your place in a few years - based on ideas and initiatives...

Germans start

In Germany, too, space-way start-ups are created in rows, the innovations of which initiate the era of the New Space: with hybrid rockets, 3D...

First look into the heart of an exploding star

Astronomers have discovered a supernova in which the predecessor star was exposed to his innermost layers shortly before the explosion. Even silicon (gray), sulfur...

Jupiter hot brothers

Astronomers have tracked down hundreds of giant planets outside the solar system, which very close to their home stars. How did you get there?...

Astronomers find biomolecule precursors in protoplanetar disc

In the planetary pane around the protoster V883 Orionis, astronomers have demonstrated complex organic molecules. © ESO/L. Calçada; T. Müller/ MPIA/ HDA The preliminary...

Astronomers find accompanying stars of Betägeuze

This is a recording of Betägeuze and its smaller, more bluish accompanying star, created by Gemini North Telescope. © International Gemini Observatory/Noirlab/NSF/Aura ...

Astronomers observe the beginnings of a new planetary system

This recording of the Alma Observatory shows hot gases around the protoster hops-315. In its protoplanetary disc, astronomers have proven silicate crystals - first...

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