Identification of the carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) has been very elusive since the beginning of the last century. Differentcomplex carbon...

Nobel-prize winning scientists (2010), Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, synthesized graphene in the laboratory in 2004. Just seven years later, this...

Observing the nucleus of a comet is difficult, because comets are normally active near the sun which means that their nuclei are hidden by their comae. 124P...

Using a gravitational lens, the first precise determination of the extinction curve from the optical to the far UV has been carried out in a galaxy outside the...

ESA's Herschel Space Observatory was launched on 14 May 2009. After a short commissioning and performance verification period, the science demonstration...

The so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) are orbiting the Sun at heliocentric distances larger than 150 AUs, and their discovery a decade ago was...

Thanks to the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, bucket loads of large carbon molecules, the so-called fullerenes (C 60), have been found around dying stars in the...

Galactic superwinds present a filament-like structure, with strong X ray emissions, which could not be explained until now. Using hydrodynamic calculations, it...