20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Observatory, the Curiosity Mars rover, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Juno, and the James Webb Space ... seems is still on the agenda, and possibly so too are solar-system missions such as searching for signs of life in the oceans of Jupiter’s icy ...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
...atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level – and while mission managers were confident Cassini would complete the manoeuvre successfully, ... it. The craft, which is now back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... first suggested in 1990 by a different team of scientists, however missions such as Gaia were not available at the time to test such...been collected for another high-profile mission. Perhaps data from other missions such as the PLATO satellite, which...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
...give us a greater understanding of Saturn and its moons, will end its mission by plummeting into the very object it was sent to study. Today, ...five months, Cassini has been completing its Grand Finale mission; a series of 22 orbits that each pass ...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... institutes from 15 ESA member state countries, with UK institutions providing the leadership and planning for the mission. ARIEL’s Principal Investigator, Prof Giovanna Tinetti of UCL said, “Although we’ve now discovered around 3800 planets orbiting...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
...," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Its discoveries have shed a new...and Kepler was able to continue with an extended mission, dubbed K2, which lasted another four years and bumped...
