Category: 7. Science

In the distant past, the Solar System was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time, many of them eventually became part of…

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The object in question was the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of M87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy…

4MOST marks first light at ESO’s Paranal Observatory

by Robert Schreiber

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2025

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) has achieved its first light at the European Southern Observatory’s…

GMV technology links global habitats in record-breaking space analog mission

by Robert Schreiber

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2025

The World’s Biggest Analog Mission (WBA) – the most extensive Moon and Mars simulation campaign ever…

Chinese scientists studying a 2-gram lunar soil sample from the Chang”e 6 mission have identified rare CI chondrite impact residues, providing new insights into mass transfer in the inner solar system and offering new…

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early ‘proto Earth’, hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet.

The…

This streamer of gas is channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus directly onto a newborn binary star system called SVS 13A.

The team, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, analysed more than 250 young galaxies that existed when the universe was between 800 million and 1.5 billion years old. By studying the movement of gas within these galaxies, the…

Chinese scientists studying a 2-gram lunar soil sample from the Chang’e 6 mission have identified rare CI chondrite impact residues, providing new insights into mass transfer in the inner solar system and offering new…