02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), and it is due to reach its destination in 2025. Nearer to home, the deadline is looming close for...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
...at spotting signs of life – dealing with the continued bombardment of charged particle radiation emanating from Jupiter’s magnetosphere; an attribute that has the potential to alter or decimate any potential biosignatures on Europa’s surface. Seeking...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... signals that stem from Earth’s core, mantle, crust and oceans, as well as from the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Although it is not necessarily a sign that Earth’s magnetic poles are going to flip – a phenomenon that has occurred...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... to be whizzing around the red dwarf in a one to five day orbit and interacting with the plasma in GJ 1151’s magnetosphere. Although it is more likely that the radio emission came from GJ 1151, it could have also been generated...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
...improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun. These include, Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM); HelioSwarm: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... System. BepiColombo consists of two scientific orbiters: the European Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). Even though the spacecraft will be quite far away from Venus during the first...
