August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...to Earth. Alpha Centauri, the target destination for the Breakthrough Starshot project, is the closest star system to our Solar System. This image shows Alpha Centauri (left) and Beta Centauri (right). Sponsorship An interesting, alternative approach...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... on Earth and, indeed, in few other places in the solar system. The cratered terrain is formed from what have been called ‘... treat the Moon as just another resource, some sort of solar system supermarket. What is missing in the debate is what rights ...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
...Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. Ceres might seem an unusual place to build an outpost...than the Earth itself. The immediate questions include which solar system body can best provide the building materials and can ...
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 ...
26 May 2017
First results from Juno mission
... is also getting an overhaul. It was already known that Jupiter had the most intense magnetic field in the solar system, prior to Juno arriving at the gas giant, now measurements taken with Juno's magnetometer investigation (MAG) instrument...
