03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
...very close to the star and is far less massive than Jupiter—318 times Earth's mass—but has managed to accrete the ... thus stopping the planet from accreting more gas and becoming a hot Jupiter. In essence, the planet got stuck being a sub-Neptune, said...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... of life beyond our own planet. ESA has already given the green light for its JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - mission to study the ice-covered world along with Ganymede, Callisto and now...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
...) in a reasonable timescale. Their simulations found that a flyby of Jupiter combined with a Solar Oberth manoeuvre could fling a craft at a ... with C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) via a close encounter with Jupiter. For this method to work, and to reach C/2019 ...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... that takes advantage of a once-in-a-13-year window, when Earth is properly aligned with Jupiter. The spacecraft would use the gravitational pull of Jupiter as a slingshot straight to Triton for an extended 13-day encounter in 2038. The timing would...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
...do not come together naturally – and this type of environment is generally only found in extreme environments like those of Jupiter and Saturn. So, for temperate, rocky worlds like Earth, “it is implausible that PH3 can be produced without biological...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... and colleagues suggest that GJ 1132 b acts a lot like Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is the most volcanically active body in the...friction generated within Io's interior as it is pulled between Jupiter and the other Galilean moons. Caught between its host ...
