June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... military defence agencies, to make planetary defence a priority. The impacts left by fragments of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 hitting Jupiter in 1994 are a reminder of the danger faced by Earth (JPL/NASA/STScI) Developing space technologies Despite our...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... force came in 1994 after astronomers witnessed the impact on Jupiter of a multi-part comet as it crashed into the ...between 16 and 22 July 1994 pieces of the comet bombarded Jupiter with explosive force that could easily be seen through telescopes. ...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... of this question is the abundance of volatile-rich planetesimals migrated from the outer Solar System (ie, beyond Jupiter). Observations of increasing abundance of C-type asteroids across the main belt inferred from telescopic observations have led...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... twice every Saturnian year. This pattern seems to be a common feature of planetary atmospheres, having also been observed on Jupiter using Earth-based telescopes. The implications are far-reaching in that waves drive these oscillating patterns...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...massive, short period planets are now generally referred to as ‘hot Jupiters’, and the announcement of 51 Pegasi b heralded a flood of...was this very idea that led us to overlook hot Jupiters. Now, given the unexpected planetary diversity that has been...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...space travellers had thus far not been. A human voyage to Jupiter and its remarkable moons, to Saturn’s moon Titan and the ...There was to be a celebration tonight. Many new details of Jupiter have been revealed by the Juno probe which arrived in 2016....
