August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
...mission uses special detectors to peer through the clouds of Jupiter and reveal the depths of its storms, you can... intuitive. Beneath The Surface, by Dan Goods, an installation about Jupiter using a cloud and invisible lights. Space as a platform The ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... to realise next-generation telescopes or satellites capable of detecting the signatures of life, not only on Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but in exoplanets beyond the solar neighbourhood. However, given that the prospect of finding life...
02 November 2015
PSO J318.5-22: ‘orphan planet’ may have weather
... that these could be caused by a weather system. It is possible that something similar to the stormy spots on our own Jupiter is occurring on this enormous lost world. Such observations could amount to a major breakthrough in the study of exo-weather...
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...
