Astronomy

What can be heard on Mars? Much more than expected!

And that also tells us a lot more about the atmosphere of the red planet. Mars rover Perseverance has been researching our red, dusty neighboring...

Martian flash floods

A river bed formed by a lake on Mars. (Image: THEMIS (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Arizona State University) and MOLA (NASA / GSFC...

Clues found for mysterious ‘hole’ in the very young solar system

This hole may have served as a cosmic boundary, allowing Earth-like planets to emerge on one side, while gas giants loomed in the outer...

Prolonged stay in space may lead to brain damage

This is evident from blood tests of five Russian cosmonauts who stayed in the International Space Station for almost six months. We know that space...

Oceans on Venus? Forget it!

While it was previously suggested that water once flowed liberally across the Venusian surface, that exciting theory is now being questioned in a new...

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,...

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