January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
..., a region of rocky debris left over from the planet formation process that sits between Mars and Jupiter. Ryugu is a C-type or ‘Carbonaceous’ asteroid, which is a class thought to contain organic material and also to have remained relatively...
27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
A record breaking brown dwarf with a mass equivalent to 90 times that of Jupiter has been found by an international team of astronomers, making it the most massive object of this type found to date. ...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
...European Space Agency)'s upcoming mission, JUICE, which stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. JUICE is the first large-class mission ..., and its unique magnetic and plasma interactions with Jupiter and its environment. "Our results can provide the...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...of cubesat concepts that have the potential to enhance the science achieved at Europa. These cubesats would be carried to Jupiter by the host spacecraft and then released on approach to execute their assigned mission. In this hitch-hiker architecture...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
..., was able to provide the most detailed images of Jupiter and its moons Europa and Io. The spacecraft also deployed the ...Galileo probe that entered Jupiter’s atmosphere for the first time giving us insight ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... These special positions occur because gravitational resonances with Jupiter and Mars throw these objects either inward or outward... to the gravitational influence of the planets, especially Jupiter. NEOs have become a concern because we now speculate...
