May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...massive, short period planets are now generally referred to as ‘hot Jupiters’, and the announcement of 51 Pegasi b heralded a flood of...was this very idea that led us to overlook hot Jupiters. Now, given the unexpected planetary diversity that has been...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...space travellers had thus far not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan and the ...There was to be a celebration tonight. Many new details of Jupiter have been revealed by the Juno probe which arrived in 2016....
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The...life somewhere in our solar system then these icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. ...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...manager said in an agency blog post. Aiming to do for Jupiter’s frigid moons what Cassini did for Saturn’s weird and wonderful ...that Juice will also help us to make new discoveries about Jupiter itself. May could prove to be a busy month for launches...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will perform detailed investigations of the Jupiter system at extremely low temperatures (even colder than -200 C at Jupiter arrival, and during solar eclipses). Contrarily, Solar Orbiter will perform in-situ and direct...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
...of Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system and Jupiter’s innermost moon, was also inadvertently one of the first steps ... tried to calculate when the Moon would appear from behind Jupiter, it would sometimes show up later than predicted. The ...
