Astronomy
ASTRONOMY
Hard and lifeless
The crusts of some rocky exoplanets may be too rigid for them to be habitable
SPANET
São Paulo Creates Astronomy Network
São Paulo Astronomy Network wants to unite astrophysicists
By Redação
OBITUARY
Listening to the stars
Pierre Kaufmann was one of the pioneers of radio astronomy in Brazil
By Redação
Astronomy
Seven exoplanets and a star
Seven exoplanets in the orbit of the TRAPPIST-1 star
By Redação
Physics
Bathtub astrophysics
Experiment replays phenomenon which may occur near black holes
By Redação
Astronomy
Hubble constant recalculated
Researchers calculate a new value for the Hubble constant
By Redação
Vela supercluster
The Milky Way’s gigantic neighbor
One of the largest superclusters of galaxies has been discovered
By Redação
GALILEO
The European GPS is coming
The new european GPS system should be running on November
By Redação
Pierre Auger Observatory
More muons than predicted by the LHC
Up to 60% more muons detected in cosmic-ray shower
By Redação
Astronomy
In the heart of Eta Carinae
Astrophysicists observed Eta Carinae at an unprecedented level of detail
By Redação
ASTRONOMY
Titan’s landscape
Methane creates canyons and lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon
Astronomy
Detailed map of the Milky Way
ESA released preliminary data on the survey of stars in the Milky Way
By Redação
Sylvio Ferraz Mello
Sylvio Ferraz Mello: A unique trajectory
Studies helped explain characteristic anomalies in the orbits of asteroids
By Marcos Pivetta and Igor Zolnerkevic
Proxima Centauri b
Hope for extraterrestrial life
A newly discovered planet is the focus of the search for life beyond Earth
By Redação
James Watson Cronin
Loss in physics
American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1980, died at age 84
By Redação
cover story
New eyes on the Universe
Telescopes will study dark matter, dark energy, and map the cosmos in 3D
Fast
Chinese super telescope
A Chinese radio telescope should be up and running in three months
By Redação
shooting stars
On the lookout for falling stars
Astronomers have cameras set up in France to monitor meteors
By Redação
photographic plate
A planetary system from 1917
Disks from 1917 is the first of a planetary system distant from the Sun
By Redação
Chemistry
A new kind of white dwarf
Astrophysicists identified a white dwarf almost entirely composed of oxygen
By Redação
ASTROPHYSICS
Another window to the Universe
Gravitational waves is expected to lead to studies on high-energy phenomena