04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... is being stripped away. Five billion years from now, our Solar System will look a lot different than it does right now. It will... up a new window into the final fate of planetary systems says Gänsicke. “Until recently, very few astronomers paused...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
...of 2I/Borisov; the first alien comet to visit our Solar System. “At first we had a hard time believing that atomic ...make-up of the alien planetary system it originated from, but also shows that the interloper and Solar System comets have even more ...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... discoveries. In 2014, it detected evidence of asteroid collisions in a newly formed planetary system, providing evidence that such smash-ups might be common in early solar systems and crucial to the formation of some planets. In 2016, Spitzer worked...
December 2014
Finding NEO
...better understand the process of planet formation and evolution, and the relationship between our solar system and other planetary systems. However, in the process of cataloguing and characterising about five million small bodies throughout our solar...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... a distance of 4 million miles our home appears a planetary system, with Earth and our Moon travelling as a pair. ...is still providing daily readings Each challenge requires us to develop systems or capabilities we do not currently have. In order to ...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... are not just limited to singular planets. A number of multi-planet systems have also been identified, such as 55 Cancri A. Formation of an ...further analysis But how are planetary systems formed and are there any differences in the way ...
