27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
... the moon also reinforces the idea that most dwarf planets have satellites. "Makemake is in the class of rare...circular orbit around MakeMake and thus completes a circuit around the dwarf planet in 12 days or longer. Determining the shape of the moons ...
01 March 2017
Researchers find first evidence for rocky planet formation around double stars
... stars such as these are given this name after Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars which orbits two suns, but in this case, the...the researchers puts a new spin on what type of planets can form around two objects whose competing gravity will push...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... first time that it has been detected beyond our planet. This hydrated sodium chloride mineral forms from salty water...that salty fluids could still exist in the interior of the dwarf planet says De Sanctis and colleagues. Meanwhile, back on land, an ...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
...a single satellite with high levels of redundancy, the Planet satellites utilise a simpler design and spread the risk across... and actionable. A group of Dove satellites. To date, Planet has launched 167 Dove satellites on 13 different launches. These ...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...Earth). This naturally has implications for the temperature at the planet’s surface which, in the case of Mercury, can ...Mercury’s magnetic field and observe the dust which makes up the planet’s atmosphere, in order to try and understand how exactly it...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... are going to find Lastly, we could search for technosignatures – indications that a large-scale industrial society is present on a planet. For this, we could search for city lights at night, industrial heat, or chemical by-products that are unlikely...
