19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... planet is so intriguing to study and why, to date, Mercury has remained the least explored terrestrial planet of the Solar System; its proximity to the Sun. It is not just a question of shielding a spacecraft from the furnace-like conditions it will...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... be at work; but what? "Triton has always been one of the most exciting and intriguing bodies in the solar system," said Louise Prockter, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Houston. As principal...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
.... In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, orbiting a solar-type star in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. At the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... prospect as to whether we’ll see further evidence of such polygonal waves and polar cyclones on the other giants of our solar system. Planet-encircling storms Many of the north-south contrasts that we saw at the start of Cassini’s mission have...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... facing manned space missions beyond Earth. Could cosmic radiation’s check on the human dream to explore the solar system and beyond be overturned? Could a biological solution be found to this most basic of biological threats? To the members of the...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...suitable for the development of intelligent life FP = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems NE = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life. FL = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually...
