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Researchers at the University of Würzburg have developed a headset that astronauts can use to train for various missions.

Just a few months after it was launched, the spacecraft observed one of the most violent flare eruptions on the sun - from its origin to its full release.

Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built a radiometer for measuring the temperature inside lunar craters In the night February 27, 2025, C.E.T, th

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus.

The neutrino observatory KM3Net is located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and measures a cosmic neutrino at the highest energies to date In the Mediterranean Sea, scientists, including astron

Two networks of telescopes zoom into a distant galaxy: they show, how pictures of a black hole and its jets become possible - and they confirm that there are strong magnetic fields there.

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. Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in comparison.

Exploring a valley and caves on Mars, searching for life: These are the goals of the German research initiative VaMEx.

Physicist Kai Schmitz offers insights into the evolution of the universe and questions of cosmology Kai Schmitz 's field of work lies at the interface of particle physics and cosmology; his favourite subject is gravitational waves from the early universe. In an interview with Christina Hoppenbrock, the research group leader at the Institute of Theoretical Physics provides insights into the evolution of the universe, methods of research and still unresolved questions about cosmology.

Scientists at Heidelberg University are to receive funding worth over ten million euros for basic research in nuclear and particle physics.

The black hole already weighed a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a particularly young stage of the universe.

Several research groups at the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg will receive almost €5 million over the next three years for their joint projects at the world's largest particle accelerator.

University of Göttingen involved in the development of a new high-resolution spectrograph   The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions to develop and build ANDES, the ArmazoNes High Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph.

In five years' time, a large asteroid will fly very close to Earth - a unique opportunity to study it.

"IceCube" spokesperson Ignacio Taboada reports on the progress of the experiment Researchers from several countries are using the IceCube experiment to search for neutrinos in the ice at the South Pole. These difficult-to-detect particles reach Earth from the cosmos. About 220 of the physicists involved in the experiment meet for the first time at the University of Münster from 18 to 22 March for the spring meeting of the IceCube collaboration.

The planning phase for the innovative space observatory LISA was completed successfully. This marks the start of the implementation phase of a large-scale international project that includes 3 research groups at Universität Hamburg.

Christian Weinheimer is in search of dark matter and the mass of neutrinos Christian Weinheimer sees his job as a university professor as having something of the football coach.

The planning phase of the innovative space observatory -LISA- has been successfully completed. The implementation phase of the major international project, in which three working groups at the University of Hamburg are involved, has now begun.

First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalogue of high-energy cosmic sources X-ray astronomy has an eventful 60-year history of exploring the extremes of the universe: from exploding stars to active galactic nuclei, which, with their supermassive black holes, are arguably the most efficient sources of energy in the universe.

Heidelberg researchers receive computing time for simulating the behaviour of cosmic gases and plasmas during star formation A Swiss-German research team hopes to unlock the secrets of star formation

Neutron stars may be much heavier than predicted by theory. This is possibly due to hyperons, i.e. poorly understood elementary particles.

A new Würzburg space mission is on the home straight: The SONATE-2 nanosatellite will test novel artificial intelligence hardware and software technologies in orbit.

Experts from Egypt and Germany have finished restoring the ceiling of the Temple of Esna.

The preliminary data from the MTG-I1 satellite, the first of a new generation of meteorological satellites for the even better monitoring and forecasting of severe weather events, are breathtaking They keep the promise of a revolution in weather forecasting and in nowcasting destructive extreme weather events.

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum are looking for interested people who want to participate in their project as Citizen Scientists. Most of us turn off the light in our rooms before we go to bed, but what about the lights outside of our houses? That's a question that researchers at Ruhr University Bochum are examining this September and October, and they're asking the public to help.