03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
... it seemed an outlandish idea at the time, the duo proposed the presence of an unknown planet on the periphery of the Solar System that was keeping these orbits in place. Planet X as it became known, is thought to be a sub-Neptune sized planet but...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... planet is so intriguing to study and why, to date, Mercury has remained the least explored terrestrial planet of the Solar System; its proximity to the Sun. It is not just a question of shielding a spacecraft from the furnace-like conditions it will...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... be at work; but what? "Triton has always been one of the most exciting and intriguing bodies in the solar system," said Louise Prockter, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Houston. As principal...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
.... In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, orbiting a solar-type star in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. At the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... to Earth. In addition to exploring asteroids, DLR is also participating in various missions to the outer and inner planets of the Solar System. The high-performance HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) on board the Mars Express spacecraft has been...
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...
