05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... kilograms of fuel as it did so. Juno is the farthest solar powered spacecraft from Earth and soon after the burn was completed,...when you’re talking about the single biggest planetary body in the solar system is a really good thing. There is a lot to ...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
...icy comets or asteroids which originated in the outer Solar System delivered the vast amounts of water engulfing our ...type of meteorite that is composed of material from the inner solar system. These meteorites are known as enstatite chondrite and on ...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
..., would launch from the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden in June 2021, if approved by an independent Advisory Committee. Solar engineering is the idea that airborne particles can help mitigate the affects of a warming planet by reducing the...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
.... This is what a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now found. Called KOI-456.0, the ...less-than-double the size of the Earth planet and its solar type host star that make it so special and familiar,” ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... be the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the Solar System. Furthermore, the concept idea specifies that the robots... miles) from Earth that uses multiple small spacecraft and solar sail technology to propel the lens to its target destination...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... day show us just that as they are working on plans for a solar gravity lens (SGL) – a cluster of small sats which act like ... would need to be under 10 kilograms to make use of a solar sail to achieve the needed velocity, and they would need to travel...
