Astronomy

Award for modeling the climate and complex materials

Climate models describe the complex interactions in the earth's atmosphere. (Image: studio023 / iStock) This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three researchers...

Nineteen new red dwarf stars discovered that may harbor exoplanets

The explosive stars unexpectedly emit radio waves. And that may indicate unknown worlds. Astronomers are still eagerly searching for exoplanets; planets outside our...

NASA will soon send a space probe to Jupiter’s Trojans

The probe will examine a record-breaking number of asteroids and visit the Trojans for the first time. In 1974, researchers in Ethiopia came across the...

Mars: Jezero crater was actually a lake

Jezero crater as a lake. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech) How life-friendly and abundant in water Mars once was is still a matter of dispute....

Mars rover Perseverance finds evidence of severe flooding on Mars

The new images also reveal where the rover can best collect new monsters. Mars rover Perseverance still haunts Jezero Crater; an area on Mars...

Chinese lunar lander found to have brought two billion-year-old, ‘perfect’ lunar samples to Earth

The samples reveal, among other things, that the moon was still volcanically active more recently than previously thought. Do you remember the Chang'e 5 mission?...

Photosynthesis in the clouds of Venus: that doesn’t seem such a far-fetched idea

New research suggests that sunlight slumbering through Venus' cloud cover may enable photosynthesis as we know it here on Earth. Venus is so unwelcoming at...

Pluto’s atmosphere appears to be slowly disappearing

Thanks to a passing star, scientists have been able to measure the thin atmosphere of the dwarf planet. And that shows that it...

Russians send actress and director into space

The two – accompanied by Russian astronaut Anton Shkaplerov – have just been launched. The Soyuz capsule took off a few minutes ago from Baikonur,...

A planet orbiting three stars may be discovered for the first time

It cautiously suggests that planets may see the light of day in far more places than was previously thought possible. In our solar system, all...

Space probe on the hunt for Mercury’s secrets, spot the planet for the first time

The result is a beautiful picture of the still rather mysterious inner planet of our solar system. Space probe BepiColombo took the picture this weekend...

Another 416(!) new objects discovered at the edge of our solar system

And that with an instrument that wasn't even designed for that! Over the past six years, researchers have used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on...

BepiColombo skims past Mercury tonight

The spacecraft thus gains a first glimpse of the planet that it will study intensively from 2025. Tonight at half past two BepiColombo will skim...

“Starved” galaxies in the early cosmos

Composite image (Hubble / ALMA) of the galaxy cluster MACSJ 0138, enlarged by a gravitational lens. (Image: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) /...

Mars helicopter refuses service and wear and tear may be the culprit

That wouldn't be very surprising; the helicopter was designed for about five flights, but has already made thirteen! The fourteenth flight was scheduled for...

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