07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...accident? Did Earth originally form much further out near the gas giants and somehow get knocked out of its orbit and migrate inwards...can then strip them from their atmosphere after the gas disc dispersed, allowing the formation of planets without ...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... Scientists using ALMA have been able to peer deep into the gas giant’s atmosphere to reveal for the first time what makes up the... to make a three-dimensional map of the distribution of ammonia gas below the clouds. “For the first time, we were able...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... of rings. Today we know that all of the outer gas-giants possess such a halo, and their combined satellites number in ...volcanoes of Io, the salty ocean below Europa’s icy crust, the giant ice ravines on Miranda, or the geysers of Triton and Enceladus...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
...with three or more planets have been detected so far1. Finding gas giants at close orbits to the central star is in itself a ...for life. Located further out is a long-period (∼3657 days) giant planet known as GJ 832b. This outer planet has a mass of ...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
...Jupiter, and it will slow JUNO enough to be captured by the giant planet’s gravity. This is part of the first steps involved in JUNO... burn fails to insert the spacecraft into orbit around the gas giant, there will be no science mission. If all goes ...
26 August 2016
All eyes on Jupiter as Juno moves in close tomorrow
...of instruments activated for the first time, ready to study the gas giant as the spacecraft hurtles by at 208, 000 kilometres per hour... opportunity to take a really good look at the stunning giant of the skies. Although the science data from the pass...
