October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
..., Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto, which are believed to be harbouring internal oceans. Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, is deemed a high-priority target because it provides a natural laboratory for analysis of the nature, evolution and...
01 July 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
...The finding, which reveals a new challenge of predicting when solar activity exposes the Moon, will help scientists and engineers prepare ...without a shockwave – such as at times when the solar wind blows sideways – suggesting the exposure could occur ...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
...expanding, has instead discovered 461 new objects in the outer Solar System. Found as part of the Dark Energy Survey (... relevant to more detailed hypothesis of the formation of the outer Solar System”, the authors write in their paper. This huge haul ...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...‘heliosheath’ - a zone where the clutches of the solar winds loosen - into interstellar space. Mounted on these craft... stars with planetary systems NE = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life. FL = The fraction...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... the black hole. While this will not affect our Solar System, there is a small chance that we might ...a spectacular cosmic firework display for our ancestors to witness (if the Solar System was not cast out into space), according to the researchers...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... who seek to understand the nature, origin and history of our solar system.” As research expanded to include other planets, satellites, asteroids ... samples from the Moon, asteroids, comets, the solar wind and cosmic dust. LPI has long supported ...
