17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... interstellar visitor, an object dubbed ‘Oumuamua, swung within 38 million kilometres of the Sun before racing out of the Solar System. “Whereas ‘Oumuamua looked like a bare rock, Borisov is really active, more like a normal comet. It’s a puzzle why...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...the formation of discs that can rival the size of the Solar System The origins of a protoplanetary disc start in the relatively small ... of discs that can rival the size of the Solar System and above, suggesting that such discs are initially quite...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... on the type of host star; thermal emission dominates at longer wavelengths. From studying planets within our own Solar System, we have found that we need observations in multiple spectral bands with different intensities for a robust analysis of any...
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...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... a small icy moon of Saturn, is currently seen as one of the prime candidates for hosting microbial life in the solar system as it appears to fulfill the basic requirements for it hosting life: a subglacial ocean in the liquid state that is in direct...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... tell researchers everything they would like to know about what will become the only body in the Solar System to have had its orbit changed by humankind in a measurable way. Hera’s single most important contribution is expected to be an estimate...
