A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA) has discovered a new exoplanet whose orbital period is the longest known so far. It has been named Kepler-421b and orbits its star every 704 days.
A team of researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the universities of California and Princeton, in the USA, has managed to recreate the conditions that exist inside the giant planets.
Those who are passionate about astronomy are in luck. In a short space of time we will enjoy an extraordinarily large and bright Moon, like the one this past July 12. We still have two more opportunities to see another supermoon: next August 10 and September 9.
A team of astronomers from Haverford College (USA) has discovered the two furthest stars in our galaxy, on the outskirts of the Milky Way. The finding has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has confirmed that the furthest human probe from Earth, Voyager 1, has suffered a new "tsunami wave" from the Sun as it continues its journey through interstellar space, evidencing that it left a year ago our star to enter a new frontier of the sea of stars.
Data provided by NASA's Cassini mission and ESA suggest that the subterranean ocean that houses the largest of its moons, Titan, would be as salty as our Dead Sea.
A team of researchers led by the University of New South Wales (Australia) has discovered a planet very similar to Earth, potentially habitable and quite close: only 16 light years away.
These days we have the opportunity to contemplate a phenomenon that only occurs every 17 years: the alignment of the asteroids Ceres and Vesta, two of the brightest objects in the asteroid belt.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
