Astronomy

Let’s hunt for exomoons around orphan planets

Planets roaming space without a parent star may not be as lonely as thought. They can sometimes harbor moons. And we can spot some...

Closer view of shadow craters

The 17 newly investigated shaded craters and depressions are located near the south pole of the moon. (Image: MPS / University of Oxford...

Large quake on Mars detected by Marslander InSight

The quake also lasted a very long time; about an hour and a half! Last weekend, Marslander InSight celebrated its 1000th day on Mars....

Huge spherical void discovered in space

An exploding star punched a hole in space nearly 500 light-years ago 10 million years ago. And strangely enough, we never noticed that enormous emptiness....

Mars may be too small for Martians

The habitability of Mars may be severely limited by the planet's small size. Water is one of the most important ingredients for life as we...

NASA sends a rover to Nobile crater on the moon’s south pole

The rover will search here – in one of the coldest regions in our solar system – for a particularly valuable raw material: ice....

First fully manned space flight ends with a splash, but is also the prelude to more

The four crew members of the Inspiration4 mission are safely back on Earth, where countless other space tourists are eager to follow suit. After three...

Planet X may be closer than thought

But that still doesn't make it obvious that we'll be spotting the planet anytime soon. That can be read in a new study which has...

NASA is looking for a car… for the moon

Who oh who wants to build an ingenious moon car with which future astronauts can cruise over the vast lunar landscape? During the Apollo missions,...

Mars rover Perseverance collects first Mars sample intended for return to Earth

The sample tube appears to have been successfully filled with precious Martian rock. One of Perseverance's main tasks on the Red Planet is to collect...

Exploded star collides with its stellar sister – which then explodes too

Astronomers have found evidence that a stellar collision can also lead to a supernova explosion. A supernova is the phenomenon where a star explodes in...

Some white dwarfs have been fooling us for years

They pretend to be younger than they actually are. But the Hubble Space Telescope now sees through that outward appearance. When our sun is...

New images of asteroid Kleopatra cautiously suggest she gave birth to her own moon

The 'dog bone' asteroid orbits so fast that its mane may have formed from thrown material. In the asteroid belt, located between the planets Mars...

History will be made this week with the first-ever fully-manned orbital spaceflight

On the night from Wednesday to Thursday, SpaceX will put four 'ordinary people' into orbit. A first. The first fully civilian-manned orbital spaceflight was...

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