22 January 2016
Possible “Planet Nine” Discovery Announced
..., equal to ninety-three million miles.). By comparison, Jupiter is about five astronomical units from the sun. Lance Hayashida...to its current location after a gravitational interaction with Jupiter or Saturn. “One of the most startling discoveries...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
..."Star Wars.” The planets official status is Kepler-1647b, a Jupiter size planet with a very long orbital period – taking roughly ...like Kepler 1647b are host to moon systems, like our own Jupiter and if so, what is the possibility that these moons are ...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... spacecraft, is scheduled to launch in October 2021 and will visit a target-rich environment of Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids. The Trojans, currently trapped by Jupiter’s gravity, may have initially formed far from beyond the gas giants...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
...orbital periods of 1057, 215, 118, 49, 677, and 5700 days, and minimum masses of 0.63, 0.17, 0.1, 0.05, 0.12 and 0.38 (compared with Jupiter) respectively. All of the planets were found via the radial-velocity method. This method is often to referred...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
... is to determine whether the icy moon possesses the ingredients necessary to support life as we know it, or not. Artist's illustration of Jupiter and Europa (in the foreground) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
...visit to the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, as the prospect of sampling the ocean without drilling... continued bombardment of charged particle radiation emanating from Jupiter’s magnetosphere; an attribute that has the potential ...
