Niels Bohr Institute

Space

Scientists are studying the visible celestial bodies such as stars, planets and galaxies, but also the mysterious dark universe - dark matter and dark energy.

Is the Earth common, but life unique?

Why haven’t aliens from one of these planets visited Earth? Is the universe filled with planets…
Exoplanets

Is Earth unique or just one of many habitable planets? Can we find evidence of life elsewhere? It's…
Cosmic Explosions

Danish astronomers are among the world leaders in the quest for cosmic explosions. Cosmic explosion…
Dark Matter

The Universe consists not only of the visible heavenly objects like stars, planets and galaxies -…
Solar storms and space weather

The sun is precisely in these years, moving into its next active period, which peaks in 2013. The…
X-Shooter

Danish researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have developed and built a large portion of the…
MARS: The Phoenix Mission, PART 1

Was there ever life on Mars? - could there still be life on the cold, red desert planet? The…
MARS: The Phoenix Mission, PART 2

After having flown 250 million kilometres through the solar system, Phoenix landed on the 25th of…
MARS: The Phoenix Mission, PART 3

The Phoenix Mars Lander produces power using large solar panels, so it is only during the summer…
Our cosmic roots

By scrutinising images from Hubble Ultra Deep Field, researchers have gained fascinating new…

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