14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
...“It’s awesome. We could potentially use this technology to hop on the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, Pluto, the poles of Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who worked at NASA’s Kennedy...
19 June 2019
Two new Earth-like planets found around nearby star
... low-level radiation output, a red dwarf’s habitable zone is much closer to its host star – closer than Mercury is to our own sun. This makes getting life established on any close-in planets quite difficult. Not only...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... larger than our planet. Known as GJ 357 b, this scorching world orbits 11 times closer to its star than Mercury does our Sun. Without accounting for the additional warming effects of a possible atmosphere, this gives this...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
In some daring flybys that took it closer to the Sun than Mercury, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has uncovered features that will fundamentally change our understanding of the Sun ...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... Orbiter will come within about 42 million kilometres of the Sun: closer than the scorched inner planet Mercury, where it will face blistering temperatures of up to 500°C. Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s turbulent...
11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
... kelvin (1727 degrees celsius) or more, due to the amount of radiation received from their host star. In comparison, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun in our Solar System, has a day side temperature of around 700 K (427...
