1995: viene scoperto un pianeta orbitante intorno a una stella simile al nostro Sole, a conferma di secoli di speculazioni sull'esistenza di altri mondi. 51 Pegasi b, il primo di una lunga lista di pianeti...

Nel nostro immaginario sono sinonimi di mistero e distruzione; la fantascienza li ha spesso rappresentati come passaggio verso irraggiungibili universi paralleli; la ricerca scientifica ci ha mostrato che al...

Einstein predicted it: on 14 September 2015 a wave, originating from the merger of two black holes occurring 1.3 billion light years away, was detected as it passed though the Earth. This extraordinary astronomical event...

For thousands of years the thirst for knowledge, adventure and wealth has driven humans to elude the constraints placed on them by chance and geography. More recently, scientific and technological progress has allowed humanity...

Over its long history, the Earth has been repeatedly struck by celestial bodies drifting through space. This is proven by evidence left on the planet’s surface: impact craters. The most renowned crater is located in...

The skies and the stars have always played a major role in the lives of humankind. Even in prehistoric times the observation of the heavens and the stars allowed communities to mark the passage of time and the alternation of...

For hundreds of years Mars has inspired the imagination of scientists, scholars and especially ordinary people. The myths surrounding this planet remain intact even today, in spite of the numerous expeditions that have...

Plants, animals, and humans exist thanks to the small fraction of solar energy absorbed by the Earth. Sunlight allows our planet's surface to maintain a comfortable temperature, oceans to remain liquid, and...

How vast is the universe? Was there a beginning, and will there be an end? How did the Big Bang theory arise? How does one go about discovering the universe's past and foreseeing its future? These are ancient...

Humankind's attraction for outer space and its questions concerning the cosmos are as ancient as mankind itself, even if they've been particularly crucial ever since Galileo. Over the last 50 years planetary...