June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... not only gives us clues as to the formation and evolution of our own planet but of habitable conditions in the solar system and beyond. Complex atmosphere A day on Titan lasts a lengthy 16 Earth-days and it orbits Saturn at a considerable distance...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... world would be a better place. Just as we are reaching the threshold of leaving low Earth orbit to populate the solar system, are we also now entering a ‘post-overview effect world’, in which humanity is increasingly aware of its role as astronauts...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... power is no longer held back by high transportation cost. Large probes are visiting most objects of interest in the solar system, and space telescopes larger than terrestrial ones are enabling breakthrough discoveries. There are wide environmental...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... solely responsible for the KPg extinction event, but that a giant molecular cloud passing through the solar system led to an environmental catastrophe of Earth, driven by an enhanced flux of cosmic dust particles and cosmic rays, which caused...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... lurking within astronomers have spotted a relic of the inner primordial Solar System - the first of its kind to be confirmed so far ...strengthen theories about the dynamical evolution of the Solar System that describes how the planets ended up where ...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
...kilometre ball of rock is the very first object in the Solar System shown to have an extrasolar origin. Late last year, the... 400 metres long) rocky object was hurtling through the Solar System on an interstellar sojourn around the Sun. Named after ...
