17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
...structure spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometres.” Saturn's original visually striking hexagon was discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s. Its sides stretch for a staggering 14,500 kilometres (9,000 miles) – that’s over...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... spacecraft into normal operational mode — a process that is expected to take about four days. Then hopefully it is bon voyage for the next seven years as Bepi cruises to its hostile destination.
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship has made history with her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the Mojave Desert in California. After taking off attached to the company’s ...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... (AU) away from the planet we live on. Thats a heck of a distance for a small sat to navigate considering that the Voyager probes are still less than 150 AU from Earth even after travelling for more than 40 years...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
.... The possibility of a feature-rich landscape and hydrocarbon seas on Titan was first suggested based on data obtained by Voyager 1 and 2 as they whizzed by on their tour of the Solar System. This was backed up in 1995 when data from...
24 January 2020
New study suggests Enceladus' oceans more habitable than previously thought
... tour of the gas giants and some of their moons. Sights that were last seen in situ by the Voyager craft in the 1980s. Scientists had long suspected that the ocean below Enceladus's icy exterior could...
