Astronomy

Is there life on K2-18B?

The detection of planets in other stars is now routine. Now astronomers can even analyze their atmospheres - and maybe soon discover traces of...

Ashton Edwards - August 5, 2025

Astronomy

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...

Ashton Edwards - July 30, 2025

Astronomy

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 ...

Ashton Edwards - July 23, 2025

Astronomy

Listen whales

Nowhere is there as little underwater noise as in the South Pole...

Ashton Edwards - July 22, 2025

Astronomy

Image of science podcast – episode 18: is there life on distant planets?

The physicist Ekaterina Ilin from the Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron in...

Ashton Edwards - July 18, 2025

Astronomy

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...

Ashton Edwards - July 17, 2025

Astronomy

Lithium in Merkur’s exosphere detected

A spacer probe in the exospre of Mercury (illustration). © Thibaut Roger/ Europlanet, CC-by-SA 4.0 ...

Ashton Edwards - July 9, 2025

Astronomy

Rubin Observatory opens a new view of space

The new Vera-C. Rubin Observatory at the summit of the Cerro Pachón in Chile in front of the tracks of stars. © NSF-Doe Vera...

Ashton Edwards - June 25, 2025

Astronomy

Anniversary of quantum research

Quantum research led to technologies in the modern world. In the picture: model of a quantum computer. © Adventtr/iStock ...

Ashton Edwards - June 20, 2025

Astronomy

First look at the pole of the sun

The ESA sonds Solar Orbiter delivered recordings and data from the South Pole of the Sun for the first time. This collage shows some...

Ashton Edwards - June 12, 2025

Astronomy

A gas giant around a small dwarf star

The newly discovered gas giant TOI-6894B circles a very massive red dwarf star (illustration). © University of Warwick/ Mark Garlick ...

Ashton Edwards - June 6, 2025

Astronomy

Where the hot Jupiter Wasp-121b was created

By watching the light spectrum of the planet WASP-121B in different phases of his circulation around his mother star, astronomers have found more about...

Ashton Edwards - June 3, 2025

Astronomy