20 August 2021
"Weird" comet ATLAS may be a remnant of an ancient visitor
... much farther than the distance where its parent passed the Sun. "This emphasises its strangeness," Ye says. "If it broke up this far from the Sun, how did it survive the last passage around the Sun 5,000 years ago? This is the big question," Ye adds...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... to Earth’s orbit - so that it gets farther from the Sun - but an Earth beanstalk would be leveraging against Earth’s ...of rich civilisations to do this - maybe half the time - as the Sun’s heat continuously moves our habitable or Goldilocks zone ...
25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
...calculated the difference between the speed of the atmospheric gas at different positions on the star and the average speed over the entire star, to produce the first two-dimensional velocity map of the atmosphere of a star other than the sun. It was...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... (NOAA) has expressed interest in placing a long-duration solar storm warning spacecraft closer to the Sun, yet always between the Earth and Sun, so as to enable rapid warning of an impending solar storm - potentially preserving some space satellites...
18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
... today, including those necessary for life on Earth. "This data will enable such discoveries as the original star clusters of the Galaxy, including the Sun's birth cluster and solar siblings - there is no other dataset like this ever collected...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... (but along a relative inherently safe orbit), pointing to the Sun, and acquiring again the formation before the next apogee phase (event 3). The breaking and acquisition of the formation is achieved by performing a set of impulsive manoeuvres called...
