Cosmic explosions: 2022.12.08 Astronomers discover enigmatic cosmic explosion Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute played an important role in the study that may lead us to…
James Webb Space Telescope: 2022.11.23 Farthest galaxy candidate yet known discovered by James Webb These galaxies seem to be so massive that they challenge our understanding of how structure forms i…
Cancer research: 2022.11.11 New Discovery: A missing link of cancer defence Danish scientists have revealed a mechanism, crucial to DNA repair in cells. This can fundamentally…
ERC SYNERGY 2022.10.25 World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium?…
Climate Change 2022.09.15 Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological…
Galaxies: 2022.09.14 Master student discovers a group of galaxies clustered together in the early Universe While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master student in astronomy…
Galaxies: 2022.09.12 Astronomers discover a swarm of galaxies orbiting a hyper-luminous galaxy Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers…
SPACE TRAVEL 2022.09.02 Martian oxygen factory passes first major test New results from the red and rocky surface of Mars have shown that MOXIE, an oxygen generator that…
Topography: 2022.07.21 New method to map the surface of the moon increases accuracy to unprecedented levels This new method uses a much more direct and precise calculation, it doesn’t rely on a whole set of…
Star systems: 2022.07.18 Compact, massive triple star system detected for the first time How this unique combination of a binary set of stars and a revolving bigger star can form, is now…
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: 2021.04.20 Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations
Grants: 2021.01.25 Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants