Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

The Moon is much older than previously thought. Its crust was reheated after its formation - and has thus misled researchers in determining its age more

New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope no longer rule out the presence of an atmosphere around the Earth-sized rocky planet. However, a geologically active planet also explains the data.  more

The Sun should be capable of eruptions that are a hundred times stronger than the strongest flare ever recorded. This is shown by an analysis of over 50,000 sun-like stars. more

A pulsar within a few thousand light-years of Earth could have accelerated electrons and positrons to the extreme energies now measured by the H.E.S.S.-Observatory more

Newly analyzed data from ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft offer the first high-resolution view of the entire solar disk more

This is the first image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The red supergiant WOH G64 is the most extreme of its kind: a cocoon of gas and dust indicates an impending supernova explosion more

How pieces of music by different composers and genres develop can be anticipated for different periods of time more

A huge thermonuclear explosion 2700 light years away makes the nova T Corona Boralis visible to all in the night sky more

Nested morphology of gas streams confirms a mechanism that helps infant stars to grow by ingesting disk material. more

New all-sky survey by the MeerKAT radio telescope shows the universe as expected at large distances - unlike previous observations by other telescopes more