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...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... time on all its objects, including not only in the Earth-Moon system itself, but also on Mars, Venus, etc. Such a time zone system would completely eliminate any navigation errors and related incidents based...
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...
