24 August 2018
First flight for EXOS's reusable suborbital rocket due tomorrow
.... “We are excited to enter into the testing phase of our SARGE platform at Spaceport America,” said John Quinn, EXOS COO. “We look forward to enabling space research, manufacturing, and educational opportunity for the world by providing frequent...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
... similar signs of geological activity venting from an otherwise hidden exo-Io moon. Astronomers have not yet discovered a rocky moon ... And they think they have found their first one; an exo-Io orbiting a hot Saturn-mass planet known as WASP-49b....
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
..., including the Moon and some Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and are thought to be ubiquitous in the systems of exo-planets scattered throughout the galaxy. BepiColombo in cruise configuration. The two spacecraft, the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter...
02 November 2015
PSO J318.5-22: ‘orphan planet’ may have weather
... own Jupiter is occurring on this enormous lost world. Such observations could amount to a major breakthrough in the study of exo-weather – i.e. conditions on worlds beyond our solar system. In the meantime, PSO J318.5-22 continues to be an object...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... circumstellar discs to study the initial conditions of planetary formation and how these evolve to form fully-fledged exo-planetary systems. After its discovery, a secondary team of astronomers which also included Keppler, studied the different...
03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
.... Planet X as it became known, is thought to be a sub-Neptune sized planet but with an orbit 20 times as large Neptune. Many exo-systems have planets in this mass range, but so far, our Solar System seems to lacking one. If the...
