28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
... Transportation System (ITS) and together they stand 122 m tall, bigger than an Apollo-era Moon programme Saturn V rocket. The booster will have 42 Raptor engines arranged in concentric circles. The spaceship itself will have...
14 July 2017
Juno gets in close to The Great Red Spot
... been released by NASA, after Juno did a fly-by of this most distinguished feature earlier this week. Like Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s Red Spot has enthralled professional astronomers and amateur enthusiasts alike since the planet...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... of an affect on blocking out the light than our distant but more massive gas giant neighbours, I.e Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. "Larger planets would naturally block out more light as they pass in front of their...
01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
...-lived and furthest human-made objects in the Universe. Voyager 1 and 2 initially set out to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but once this task was complete, the twin spacecraft extended their mission...
