Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

The unique data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft aims to explain why the Sun's activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. more

Nobel Prize winner Genzel and nearly 30 leading researchers call for the relocation of an industrial plant more

SPHERE’s images of dust around distant stars provide a glimpse of asteroids and comets in other solar systems more

New research suggests that the body that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago, creating the Moon, originated in the inner Solar System more

Four powerful lasers enhance observational oower of ESO’s Paranal Observatory more

Two gravitational wave signals explain why the heavier black holes of the causal pairs did not originate in a stellar explosion more

The Mars rover Perseverance has collected numerous samples that are to be sent to Earth. Current studies are preparing for the future handling of this material. more

Scientists detect the lowest mass dark object currently measured more

Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 more

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics celebrate the anniversary and present new, exciting results more