June 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...was part of a planetary system of at least three Earth-like planets around the millisecond pulsar PSR 1257+12. 1997 marked a... of discoveries relating to pulsars, galaxies, asteroids, comets, planets, exoplanets, and so much more. About the author Dr...
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...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... are still pretty much in the dark. Five years ago, astronomers made the surprising discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting our closest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, within the star’s circumsolar habitable zone (HZ). Dubbed Proxima...
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...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... artists. Changing landscapes Mars was always seen as the most Earth-like planet. It has polar caps and dark areas which appear to ..., and at least partly opaque, with clouds and an almost Earth-like landscape, but with seas and lakes not of water but ...
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...
