18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... of the solar system. Niku isn't a solitary rebel, as he appears to be a part of a cluster of other high-inclination TNOs and Centaurs (minor planets), with some of the objects orbiting prograde, and some orbiting retrograde. So what it is that makes...
12 October 2016
NASA to move ahead with plans for private ISS modules
...), with the latter having received NASA's NextSTEP award this year. Ixion plans to study the conversion of a Centaur upper stage into a commercial International Space Station module. According to the latest statement, NASA hopes that...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
... of the Solar System’s dynamical history is still rather small. As of April 2018 over 2,700 trans-Neptunian objects, centaurs and SDOs are recorded on the Minor Planet Center (MPC) list but not all of these have...
