14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...'s icy crust. “After Hubble imaged this new plume-like feature on Europa, we looked at that location on the Galileo thermal map. We discovered that Europa's plume candidate is sitting right on the thermal anomaly," said William Sparks...
09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
The banded stripes circling Jupiter have fascinated people as much as the Great Red Spot, ever since Galileo first spotted the gas giant. Now, thanks to data collected by the Juno mission, scientists have been ...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... figure who has been hailed by many as "an inspiration to millions." Born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo, Hawking was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was given only...
29 August 2018
New national launch record for China
... in a calendar year as the country ramps up its aerospace activities. The Beidou system is China’s equivalent to Europe’s Galileo constellation and the US GPS precision timing and navigation system and it plans to have 35 active satellites in orbit...
05 November 2018
First global thermal map of Europa reveals curious cold spot
... or any unusual visible morphological or albedo features.” Due to its location, the anomaly was not picked up by the Galileo spacecraft which provided the bulk of current data on Europa, therefore a further analysis of this region may have...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... sun. Radioisotope Heater Units are used frequently by NASA and were critical components aboard probes such as Galileo, the Huygens probes and the two solar powered Mars Exploration Rovers, for keeping the crafts...
