31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
...of the sun and the magnetic processes that occur in them. These processes propagate into the solar system where the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions will measure their consequences. Altogether, they constitute a genuinely multi-messenger...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... (Jupiter), MESSENGER (Mercury), Cassini (Saturn), and Parker Solar Probe (the Sun). Now, imagine that every time a...trap mass spectrometer contained in a small (60 cm diameter) probe that skims through the atmosphere. After acquisition, the gas sample...
30 September 2020
Another detection of phosphine on Venus possibly found in archival data
...for further phosphine detections as both ESA’s BepiColombo and NASA’s Parker Solar probe are both on target to flyby Earth’s twin planet in... Another chance might lie with Japan’s Akatsuki space probe which is currently in orbit around Venus. Although ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... modern spacecraft have somewhat better performance but would still require extreme journey times. The NASA Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will set a new speed record of 200 km/s by taking advantage of the enormous gravitational pull of the...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...visitor from another system as it passed briefly through our solar neighbourhood. Hoping to do for Jupiter what Cassini did...looking far below the Red Planet’s surface. The space agencies Parker Solar Probe – the first-ever mission to "touch" the sun –...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
...scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on 5 February. The mission of the Solar Orbiter is complementary to the Parker Solar Probe which is already in orbit and will make the third Venus flyby (of seven) on 11 July this...
