01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... human-made objects in the Universe. Voyager 1 and 2 initially set out to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but once this task was complete, the twin spacecraft extended their mission to study the region...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... have been discovered and their diversity appears endless. All manner of exoworlds from hot Jupiters, sub-Neptunes and super-Earths have been found orbiting different types of stars, and there is no apparent pattern linking...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... of space closer to the Sun, were consequently booted out and flung billions of kilometres beyond the orbit of Neptune, some 30 plus astronomical units (AU) away. 2004 EW95 is one such body and it likely started life in the...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... direction as the Sun’s rotation. However, it turns out that asteroids in polar orbits do exist today out beyond Neptune, our most distant planet. While there are only around ten of them, they could be added to the...
27 August 2018
Meteorites give clues as to how Jupiter was built
... million years before rapid gas accretion takes place, then intermediate mass planets such as Uranus and Neptune can be naturally accounted for.
03 September 2018
Water discovered in Jupiter's Great Red Spot suggests plenty more down below
... Goddard's Amy Simon, a planetary atmospheres expert. "If it works, then maybe we can apply it elsewhere, like Saturn, Uranus or Neptune, where we don't have a Juno," she said Chemically speaking Jupiter is the closest relative to the Sun, and...
