10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... and Mars in what is being called the largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 yet. The Earth-bound eruption has been...: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm (ARCS) and Solaris:...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...both the craft and comet. Packed on board Solar Orbiter is a Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer (SWA). This instrument will be...the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... measured by Gaia shows a close agreement with theoretical expectations and provides important information on the motion of the Solar System in the gravitational field of our galaxy." Additional papers published with the data release include a new...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
...model can be used for testing payload integration and other mechanical tests, such as the deployment of solar sails. In 2018 AST acquired a controlling interest in NanoAvionics as part of its strategy to establish manufacturing capabilities in Europe...
25 January 2017
"Extinct" meteorite challenges our understanding of how the solar system formed
...our current understanding of the history and development of the solar system, due to the rare and unknown minerals contained ...unknown but of fundamental importance in the history of the solar system occurred nearly 500 million years ago to change the ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Nonetheless, as a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone without any prior warning, data collected...
