January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
..., weeks-long mission duration, the Apollo capsule, the Saturn rockets and the lunar lander. Our spaceflight capability today ...SLS), a new rocket that will be more powerful than the Saturn V and will provide the heavy lifting for the systems needed...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
...our solar system then the icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. This ... in our solar system then these icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. It would be...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...). Traditional chemical propulsion systems, like the engines used in the Saturn V or Falcon Heavy, offer high thrust in the range of...base by 1981 and deep space probes to Jupiter, Saturn and the outer planets, were never realised. Nuclear solution...
02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
...106906b will be one of the first detected exoplanets that resembles Saturn and its ring system. Image showing a wide-angle view...are needed to ascertain if this unusual planet can pass for Saturn’s counter part – something the team hope to achieve with...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
... has not. Using data gathered from Cassini’s flybys of Saturn, Jupiter and the outer planets to track the positions and...that a hypothesised distant planet would have on the orbital motion of Saturn, concluded that such a planet (with a mass ten times ...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
...The formation of gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn has been a long standing problem in astronomy,...gyi. "So maybe an observed planet has only the same mass as Saturn instead of some Jupiter masses.” Despite these positive results, challenges still ...
