22 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
...reminder of how little we still know about our own solar system – by revealing the strange “dance” that Pluto, the ... of dwarf planet in 2006, after further research of the solar system revealed that there are several large, icy bodies in its outer...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
... Then again, lots of things in our solar system look different than expected. As the New Horizons...have colored (pun intended) a lot of theories about other objects in our solar system. Take, for example, the canals on Mars theory . It existed purely ...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... Saturn’s moon Titan will be the next target for a future Solar System mission. The two finalists battling it out for the chance to ...seek to answer some of the biggest questions in our solar system today.” At the same announcement, NASA also advised ...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
...being a would-be interstellar visitor rather than a local inhabitant of the Solar System knocked off its course. So far, the visitor part is all...only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that it will leave and head...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
...on the chemical compositions of planetary atmospheres outside our solar system, an international team led by researchers at the University... when compared with the metal abundances for the Solar System (in astronomy, any element except for hydrogen and...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... that window would have meant missing the appointment with our target, comet Wirtanen. Everything in the Solar System constantly moves, including our starting place, our destination and the planets we wanted to use as slingshots to accelerate...
