29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
... quantities of O2 into the skies, before life could use it to evolve beyond simple microorganisms that dominated the planet at the time. Oxygen now makes up nearly 21 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Finding such vast quantities elsewhere is going...
11 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... terms of graphic symbolism, it has to be Saturn: ask a child to sketch a planet and, likely as not, it will have rings. This must be at least part ...one would expect, the rings, the moons and the planet itself. Chapter 3, for example, is entitled “Why...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster... help power rockets that could lift astronauts off the planet’s surface. Such devices also might one day provide breathable...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... trans-Neptunian object (TNO) – most likely a dwarf planet – at the edges of the Solar System, making it...name is 2014 UZ224), DeeDee is surpassed in distance only by the dwarf planet Eris – the ninth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun. ...
04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... asteroid belt originate from just five or six ancient infantile planets that never made it to adulthood. Asteroids, it turns out...scientists to understand the materials that shaped our own rocky planet, but it could be hugely beneficial in helping to ...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
...was the first piece of British hardware to be sent to another planet, a “remarkable achievement”, says Taylor “that remains uncelebrated to ... realised he’d been involved with probes to all of the planets out to Saturn, with the Moon and a comet thrown...
