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...
15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
... Bombardment (LHB); a chaotic time when a disproportionately large number of asteroids are theorised to have collided with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars and when the giant gas planets underwent orbital migration, scattering objects in the...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... planetary missions, Lucy and Psyche were selected from five potential projects that included studying gases on Venus and a Near Earth Object camera. However it was plans to study an era less than 10 million years after...
19 July 2017
Mayak satellite set to shine the brightest
Venus is about to get knocked down the list of the brightest objects seen in the night sky, and in its ...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... second. The probe will reach its first point of close approach to the Sun on 5 November, after using Venus like a sling shot to give it an extra boost. During this dangerous encounter, it will fly closer to the Sun...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... other planet in the Solar System – just 0.01 degrees. Earth for comparison has an axial tilt of 23 degrees, while Venus’s tilt is a whopping 117 degrees, meaning its north pole is effectively pointing 'down.’ This tiny tilt also...
