Where is the coldest, driest and quietest place on the planet? American and Australian scientists launched their search a few months ago trying to identify the ideal location to place a telescope. And they have found it in Ridge A.
A team of British astronomers has discovered a planet ten times the volume of Jupiter that orbits so close to its star that stellar currents should have already driven it to destruction.
What if dark energy, which according to astrophysicists represents almost 75% of the entire Universe, did not exist? It is the proposal launched by the American mathematicians Joel Smoller and Blake Temple in the latest issue of PNAS magazine.
Australian scientists are collecting short sms messages to send them into outer space, specifically to Gliese 581d, an extrasolar planet relatively close to Earth that experts consider to have a high potential for supporting life.
Despite its average temperature being 180 degrees below zero, the surface of the moon Titan bears an enormous resemblance to Earth in the moments before the appearance of life, as two teams of astronomers have just demonstrated.
More than two thousand astronomers from 80 countries have begun today in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) the debates of the XXVII Assembly of the IUA, which according to forecasts will be less controversial than that of three years ago, when Pluto was stripped of the category planet.
The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century has been visible through a corridor of about 250 kilometers that crossed the two most populated countries in the world, India and China. We show you the best images of the phenomenon.
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.
