14 July 2017
Juno gets in close to The Great Red Spot
... in to about 9,000 kilometres (5,600 miles) above the planet's cloud tops to get a really good look at what is happening in .... The Red Spot reveals a tangle of dark, veinous clouds meandering their way through a massive crimson oval. Just how...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
...molecular species circulating, preventing them from sinking or forming cloud layers, and making them easier to detect. Well-...daily atmospheric variations while performing a deep survey of their cloud systems. "ARIEL is a logical next step in exoplanet...
18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
... once upon a time, would have been born from a huge cloud of gas and dust that collapsed to form a protostar – and...from the same cluster should inherit the same characteristics of the cloud it collapsed from, so the same chemical elements in roughly ...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
...southern sky that includes both the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, the bright star R Doradus and parts of a ...data collected by this auspicious mission. A snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud (right) and the bright star R Doradus taken by TESS in...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
...yet left the solar system. The outer rim of the Oort cloud is considered to be where our Solar System comes to an... 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly 30,000 years to fly beyond it; providing it doesn’t have ...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... receive as many photons as possible into the collector, another seemingly innocuous Earthly feature can cause problems; cloud cover. If just one satellite is responsible for transmitting data home, the window of opportunity to relay the information...
