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 ...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... distance of 4 million miles our home appears like a planetary system, with Earth and our Moon travelling as a pair. If... to the surface of Earth. Each challenge requires us to develop systems or capabilities we do not currently have. In order to reach...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
From studies of extrasolar systems, it is apparent that planetary systems around other stars are as varied as the planets they contain and that no one system is like another. Nonetheless, more than half of the observed Sun-like stars in the solar ...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... an injected Earth-mass planet on this nearby planetary system hoping to find a stable orbital configuration for the...planet is supported by long-term orbital stability of the system, orbital dynamics and the synthetic radial velocity signal analysis",...