Astronomy

Search for extraterrestrial organisms: Whether humans will ever land on Mars is still a long way off, but this is planned before 2050. One...

Gaia's Galaxy: The sky in catalog EDR3 is based on 34 months of measurement time by the European astrometry satellite Gaia and was published...

Artist's rendering of a habitable rocky planet similar to Wolf 1069 b. © NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter ...

Collage of the ALICE detector and a galaxy. © ORIGINS Cluster/S. kwauka Although normal matter dominates over antimatter in the universe, there are many physical...

Video: This is what it sounded like when a sand devil hit the Mars rover Perseverance. Source: NPG Press Alien Sounds: The Perseverance rover recorded...

Nuclear fusion by laser bombardment. © Damien Jemison/ LLNL Nuclear fusion is considered to be the potential energy of the future, but there is still...

The James Webb Space Telescope is the 2022 Breakthrough of the Year. © ESA/ATG medialab Every year, shortly before Christmas, the specialist magazine "Science" selects...

Through the shell of hell: The DAVINCI+ mission is to explore the hot, sulfuric acid atmosphere of Venus - both from an orbit and...

Illustration of Kepler-1638 and its planet Kepler-1638b. © Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias if(document.documentElement.clientWidth<=1220){ //var...

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Vision of the future - but not for much longer: In this decade people will explore the moon again. ©NASA ...

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Assay results from samples from the asteroid Ryugu point to a formation site beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. © JAXA, University...

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Depiction of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021 on Mars and the propagation of the surface waves to the InSight probe. ©...

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Artist's rendering of a hot Jupiter orbiting its host star closely. The "twin star" of the double system can be seen in the...

The peak of volcanism on Mars was three to four billion years ago. But signals point to continued unrest. © ESA/DLR/FU (G. Neukum) ...

An inactive stellar black hole and a sun-like star (illustration). © International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani ...

World not so strange anymore: Impression of the Mars crater Jezero, taken in July 2021 by the NASA rover Perseverance. The hill in...