Universe

Why does night exist? | Cosmic Void

Questions that seem too simple, naive or childish, such as why night exists, often lead us to complex answers containing…

3 days ago

The Juice mission shows Jupiter and the cyclones at its north pole as we’ve never seen them before.

Three recent images of Jupiter's polar cyclones, courtesy of NASA's Juno probe, show that gas structures on the planet's surface…

5 days ago

Astronomers have discovered a strange “radio halo” in a huge cluster of galaxies

Radio halos are large-scale sources of diffuse radio emission found at the centers of some, but not all galaxy clusters.…

2 weeks ago

Radiation is an invisible threat to the colonization of Mars

Exploring the red planet will have to face many problemsfrom the effects of microgravity to space mushrooms, including radiation ones,…

2 weeks ago

James Webb Space Telescope Rewrites What We Thought We Knew About the Universe

What is JWST and how is it different from the Hubble Space Telescope? The launch of the James Webb Space…

3 weeks ago

Jupiter’s moon Europa has less oxygen than expected

A new calculation of gas production on Jupiter's moon Europa shows that it produces up to a thousand tons of…

2 months ago

HL Tauri, the little star everyone is talking about

HL Tauri is a young star on the lips of almost all astronomers. It is located just 450 light years…

2 months ago

Why did you always get your age wrong, according to astrophysicists | Cosmic Void

How old are you? This is a simple question that we've all been asked at one time or another. But…

2 months ago

US returns to the moon half a century after the Apollo program, live | The science

Half a century after the Apollo 17 mission, a US spacecraft will land on the moon this Thursday. This is…

2 months ago

US returns to the moon half a century after the Apollo program | The science

Half a century after the Apollo 17 mission, a US spacecraft will land on the moon this Thursday. This is…

2 months ago