17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
.... Our current telescopes are adept at finding small, rocky Earth-like planets by indirect methods, but they cannot ‘see’ them directly... billion miles) or 550 astronomical units (AU) away from the planet we live on. Thats a heck of a distance for a...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... of that major investment is equally ambitious. MAVEN’s results are going to tell us significantly more about Earth and Earth-like planets. They will help constrain assumptions regarding how combinations of circumstances, such as surface liquid water...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... provide important clues on the origin and formation of rocky planets and help to answer fundamental questions like how Earth-like planets form and evolve in the Universe. Unlike on Earth and Venus, very few features on Mercury are clearly related...
26 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... was announced, both searchers and sceptics have had their say on the possibility of Earth making contact with intelligent life. A potentially “Earth-like” planet out there, which is what Kepler 452b is alleged to be, will obviously generate a more...
02 August 2015
From SpaceX to SolarCity: how space sector innovation affects sustainability on Earth
... has alerted humanity to how fragile and precious our planet is. There’s hardly another one like it nearby. That’s why the discovery of a possibly Earth-like planet an entire 1,400 light years away prompted such excitement recently. Sustainability...
31 July 2019
One of Ten Billion Earths
...sextillion planetary systems (that’s 100 followed by 21 noughts!). According to the author, “Earth is estimated to be one of several billion Earth-like planets in the Galaxy orbiting within a distance from their stars at which water, if it is present...
