Dark matter could make exoplanets habitable
Dark matter could help maintain liquid water on the surface of large exoplanets, making it possible for life to emerge, evolve, […]
First image of Mercury from orbit
Early Tuesday morning, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft sent us the first image of Mercury ever taken from orbit around the planet. […]
Black hole Cygnus X-1 reveals strong magnetic fields
The black hole Cygnus X-1 is revealing new details about its vicinity. The chaotic region is threaded by strong magnetic […]
Dwarfs, worms and phantoms – A few words about the astrophysical lexicon
Astrophysics sometimes sounds like science fiction: our Universe is filled with strange substances or objects, and theories describing its evolution or its nature can have some rather catchy names. Dwarf stars, dark matter, dark energy, Big bang, wormholes, phantom energy… What are all these things, and where do those funky names come from?
Two billion alien earths in our Galaxy
Recently, after the first results from NASA’s Kepler mission, scientists estimated there could be about 500 miilion Earth-like planets in our […]