09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
... field, scientists have been able to establish that the winds reach a depth of around 3,000 kilometres; quite a bit more than previous estimates had calculated. "Since Jupiter is basically a giant ball of gas, the initial expectation...
04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... Jupiter and Mars known as the inner asteroid belt, which is also the main location for wayward bits of smaller rock that find their way to Earth as meteorites. Knowing what asteroids are made of not only...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
... the entire planet. This could be explained if, when the Earth was a small ball of rubble cobbled together by bits of rock sticking together – a stage known as a planetary embryo – eventually grew large enough so that when it collided with...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
.... Here, a leading group of 3D bioprinting experts from around the world gathered to discuss the latest in growing essential bits of the body in outer space. “For the first time in Europe, all the relevant experts have come...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... unhindered for many billions of years to come. However, recent dark matter measurements of the LMC have revealed a bit of a problem. This once dwarf spiral galaxy is actually teeming with the unseen dark stuff – up to twice as much...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... 4000 metres – below martian ‘sea level’ in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The sea-level designation is a bit of a misnomer, as obviously Mars has no visible seas, so it is a somewhat arbitrarily defined level based on elevation and atmospheric...
