Astronomy

Near-Earth asteroid: fragment of the moon?

Artist's impression of the asteroid Kamo'oalewa as it passes through the Earth-Moon system. (Image: Addy Graham / University of Arizona) What about the mysterious...

The elephant in the universe keeps scientists busy

It gives astronomers and physicists a headache. But one of the most glaring problems in astronomy now also results in a beautiful book...

Recently discovered quasi-moon appears to be a fragment of our own moon

The spectrum of the quasi-moon Kamo`oalewa shows striking similarities to that of moon rocks taken during the Apollo missions. And that can only...

‘Tsunami’ of gravitational waves detected

Researchers have picked up no fewer than 35 signals, including two very special ones. The famous physicist Albert Einstein already predicted the existence of gravitational...

Space photo of the week: Beetle Nebula

In 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the beautiful Beetle Nebula (NGC 6302). This planetary nebula is located 4,000 light-years from Earth. A dying...

But no former Venus oceans?

Were there once blue areas on Venus? (Image: StockByM / iStock) Venus could always have been too hot for liquid water, emerges from a...

The moon also gets 4G and close to this crater

NASA has announced the landing site of the lunar lander that should bring 4G to the moon in 2022, among other things. Although the moon...

Healthy teeth are in a sense made possible in part by supermassive stars

Scientists have discovered how fluorine – which we mainly know in the form of fluoride – is formed. You've probably heard of fluorine, or fluoride....

Rocky exoplanets turn out to harbor rocks that we don’t know in our solar system

It seems that rocky exoplanets are even stranger than thought. Meanwhile, astronomers have already discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. ...

About “hot ice” and planetary magnetic fields

The water-rich planet Uranus has an unusual magnetic field. (Image: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio) Ice of the bizarre kind: Researchers have gained new insights...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not only gigantic, but also super deep

Using the Juno spacecraft's keen eye, researchers have unraveled that Jupiter's famed storm may be as deep as 500 kilometers. Planet Jupiter is known for...

Insight into an active galaxy core

Gas filaments generated by the black hole in the galaxy group Nest200047. (Image: University of Bologna) At the heart of most galaxies are supermassive...

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