March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These were accompanied by a quantum leap in our knowledge about the Solar System and the universe. Let...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... of Saturn gave way at these cold winter latitudes to blue hues more reminiscent of the appearance of Uranus and Neptune. This blue colour, derived from skies clear of aerosols, hinted at seasonal effects that might be expected to reverse...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
..., we have found hot Jupiters, gas-dominated dwarf planets, super-sized Earths, and even miniature versions of Neptune. We don’t yet know for certain what the solar system’s place in the Galactic planetary census actually...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... (at one tenth of an Earth mass) at separations ranging from that of Venus to beyond the orbital separation of Neptune, including rogue planets. Figure 3: Two simulated coronagraph images of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at 1.5 AU around a nearby...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... belt and beyond to the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn, and the ice giants of Uranus and Neptune in the cold, dark outer reaches of the solar system beyond. Then, in the century after the Apollo...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... envelopes of gas. The result was our set of gas and ice giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, each with a sprawling architecture of moons, rings and resonant orbital patterns. Interstellar visitors such as 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov...
