26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
... “our companies have long shared an ethos of dreaming big and executing on that vision, so it’s only fitting that Planet is among the first payloads to fly on a Rocket Lab Electron. The Electron will be a game changer in a traditionally difficult...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
...a 16-metre telescope. ESPRESSO will be unsurpassed for at least a decade — now I am just impatient to find our first rocky planet!” explains lead scientist for ESPRESSO, Francesco Pepe from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The radial velocity...
03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
...orbital period is about 12 years, Saturn’s is 29 years and Uranus completes its orbital period once in a human lifetime. Planet X on the other hand, which is postulated to be 60 billion miles from the Sun, is expected to take 20,000 years to complete...
21 January 2019
Is this the end for Planet Nine?
...been found, interest in the existence of a hypothesised Planet Nine has been reignited over the years, more recently ... of TNOs in conjunction with the orbits of the giant outer planets but instead of calculating the contents of the Kuiper Belt as ...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... of another object, it orbits around the Sun, and, unlike a planet like Earth or Venus, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its ...objects like Ceres from being classified as a full blown planet. The final requisite is that a body has to ...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... Rubin Observatory will produce," Bernardinelli says. The searches could also help determine whether Planet Nine, a hypothesised Neptune-sized planet that's thought to inhabit space beyond Pluto, really exists or not. "There are lots of ideas...
