August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...planet to the Sun in our solar system. Does this mean that our solar system is unusual and that most planets...’s Kepler mission and WFIRST to the orbits of planets in our solar system. Both WFIRST and Kepler are sensitive to planets in Venus or Earth...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...asteroid, which is a class thought to contain organic material and also to have remained relatively unchanged since the solar system’s formation. Rocks like Ryugu likely rained down on the early Earth, so if evidence of organic molecules or water are...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... Belt. Delivery of life-elements to the planets One of the most important findings from our exploration of the solar system is that it is a surprisingly soggy place, since water is found to some degree in almost all bodies. Because water is essential...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
...unmatched mission that has now taken them beyond the edges of the Solar System. But it has taken them over 40 years to do so ...that could dramatically decrease journey times through the solar system Traditional chemical-based rockets are propelled by ...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... to imagine, but we now think we have found in the PSRs a time capsule of the history of the volatiles in our solar system. To understand how this occurred we have to start at the beginning. The lunar magnetosphere protecting its tenuous atmosphere...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... opened frontiers in the past, or do we learn? Humanity’s insurance policy The goal is not to escape but to seed the Solar System with life while preserving and protecting the MotherWorld Our story is one of survival. For millennia, we have...
