17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
.... So compact that the distance of the outermost planet to its star is 2.6 times smaller than the distance between Mercury and the Sun. Furthermore say the team, headed by Nathan C. Hara, a researcher at the Department of astronomy of the...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... star. This close proximity means their surfaces have more in common with planets such as Venus and Mercury where scorching temperatures bake the planets crust. But, after noticing tiny variations in the orbital period...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... fuel.” Hydrazine could also be drifting over from Titan, another of Saturn’s moons. Larger than the planet Mercury, this extraordinary world is the only known moon with a substantial atmosphere, that like Earth’s is dominated by nitrogen...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... atmosphere, added Rimmer. “It is also important for understanding where the rocky planets in our own Solar System — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, fit into the bigger picture of comparative planetology, in terms of the availability of hydrogen...
23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... spacecraft. “We’ll in less than a year have flown as many people in this partnership with NASA as were flown in the Mercury program,” SpaceX senior director Benji Reed said during a press briefing earlier this week. Crew-2 lifted...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
...,” Funk said via a video posted on Instagram by Bezos. Born in New Mexico in 1939, Funk was one of the Mercury 13 – the first women trained to fly to space from 1960-1961, but excluded because of their gender. She...
