June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... and interconnected. During his PhD in information and communication technology, Suvanam designed electronic systems for Venus exploration missions using a material called silicon carbide. Moving on to a postdoctoral position, he studied CZTS (copper...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
..., not to mention too regulated to serve as a genuine frontier. Even in Antarctica, he says, “the cops are too close.” Venus is too damn hot. The Moon doesn’t have enough of the elements we need to survive. Mars, on the other...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
...It existed purely due to optical illusion. There is also the optical illusion recorded by Galileo – wherein for earthlings, Venus appears larger than enormous Jupiter to the naked eye. Perception is a tough thing in space. Some mistakes or perception...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
.... Research by this team, led by Courtney Dressing, also concluded that all dense planets including Earth and Venus are well-described by the same fixed ratio of iron to magnesium silicate and that rocky planets very...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
... in Earth units. The sizes of the exoplanets indicate the sizes relative to one another. The images of Earth, Venus and Mars are placed on this diagram for reference. The light and dark green shaded regions...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
... as a 12th magnitude star.” The asteroid is a frequent visitor to planets in the Solar system – in October 2017 it's expected to pass by Venus before returning to Earth in June 2020. None of these fly-bys are expected to end in impact. The asteroid...
