07 October 2016
Proxima b may be be home to oceans, says CNRS
... due to the fact that Proxima b orbits its star at only 7.5 million kilometers – about a tenth of the distance of Mercury from the Sun. However, as Proxima Centauri is much smaller and 1000 times weaker than the Sun...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
...'s brightness is notoriously unpredictable.” C/2016 U1 NEOWISE will reach its closest point to the sun – inside the orbit of Mercury – on 14th Jan 2017. Catch it while you can as shortly afterwards it will head back out to the outer...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... allow a person to see the geological features of another. The planets are closer to their host star than Mercury is to our sun, but because the TRAPPIST-1 star is an ultra-cool dwarf, it is still possible that they would...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
.... Because Kepler-90i orbits so close to its host star, its average surface temperature is believed to exceed that of Mercury's – around 427 degrees celsius (~800 degrees fahrenheit). With a surface temperature that is hot enough to melt lead...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... apart. If Titan was not gravitationally bound to Saturn, then the moon could be considered a planet as it is larger than Mercury. It is the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very different from other planetary bodies such as Mercury and Ceres where the ice is relatively pure and abundant," added Li. “The spectral features of our detected...
