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The Spanish instrument called CAFE (Calar Alto Fiber-fed Échelle spectrograph, for its acronym in English), installed in the 2.2-meter telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory (Almería, Spain), has discovered its first exoplanet that has been christened such as Kepler 91b.

Messier 33, also known as the Triangle Galaxy, is located about 3 million light years distant from Earth, and is the protagonist of the most detailed image ever seen of this galaxy. The photo has been made possible thanks to the VST survey telescope (VLT Survey Telescope), installed at the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile.

10 years and more than 6.4 billion kilometers later, the Rosetta space probe has just reached its goal: to join the side of comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko to travel together through space at a speed of 55,000 kilometers per hour.

The main sex hormone of man would have been the protagonist of our species becoming civilized thanks to a general drop in testosterone in our ancestors, according to a study by the University of Utah (USA).

What brain mechanisms influence decision-making about the severity that we impose on a punishment? This has been the central axis of the research carried out by a team of scientists from Harvard University (USA) and which has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Several weeks after the appearance of a huge and mysterious hole located at "the end of the world", two new craters of unknown origin have been seen in the Russian region of Siberia. The mystery about the appearance of these holes continues to grow.

The data obtained by the Cassini probe, which has been studying Saturn and some of its moons since 2004, has allowed a team of researchers to identify 101 active geysers in one of them, known as Enceladus.

Until now the Russian vehicle Lunokhod 2 was in possession of this astronomical mark, with 39 kilometers traveled on the surface of the Moon in 1973. Now Opportunity, the Mars exploration robot has just beaten it.