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. ...
February 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....
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The...life somewhere in our solar system then these icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. ...
