Astronomy

What formed the beginning of all being - or did it exist at all? Artist's rendering of the Big Bang. ...

Jupiter's north: The color-enhanced image was taken by Juno on April 1, 2018, about 12,300 kilometers above the clouds. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Kevin M. Gil ...

Light pollution from the very dark sky (left) to the inner-city sky. © NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld ...

Active solar region on the day before a flare (left) and before a calm day. © NASA/SDO/AIA/Dissauer et al. 2022 ...

Center of the Chameleon I cold molecular cloud, imaged by the James Webb Telescope. © © NASA/ESA/CSA and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) ...

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. ©...