August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...our solar system, as well as planets on orbits past Jupiter and rogue, free-floating planets. Its coronagraph instrument will...suppressed to reveal a disk of dust and a bright Jupiter-size planet amid the residual starlight after the coronagraph. ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...on exoplanets that we can characterise. So far, measurements have been mostly restricted to the atmosphere of about a dozen hot Jupiters. The next few decades will see multiple experiments that, when used in conjunction, will be capable of increasing...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... in size than the more familiar and widely observed hot-Jupiter class of exoplanet, only a handful of hot-Neptunes are...helium and hydrogen, meaning the exoplanet is more of a small Jupiter or Saturn-like planet rather than a large Earth. As such...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... the ARIEL ESA Candidate mission and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. References 1 Mayor M, Queloz D (1995) A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star. Nature 378:355-359 2 Tinetti G, Encrenaz T & Coustenis A. Astron Astrophys Rev...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
... phase and the stakes are exceedingly high. If the Jupiter Orbit Insertion burn fails to insert the spacecraft into orbit... approach and in doing so, JUNO will hopefully shed light on how Jupiter formed and evolved. All that is left to say is ‘Watch...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
...around Europa, it has the potential to block some of the light of Jupiter, and we could see it as a silhouette. And so we were ...the limb of Europa as it transited the smooth face of Jupiter." But it turned out that after observing Europa for fifteen ...
