August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...other planets. Lisa Pratt, NASA’s current Planetary Protection Officer, is concerned with forward ...past. As we begin the intrepid adventure of colonising our own solar system, I believe it is important to reflect on global colonial habits. ...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
...of the orbital motion and the disorderly densities certainly challenges our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems,” says Leleu. Although none of the six exoplanets found lies in the star's habitable zone – an area in which...
13 June 2018
Novel technique helps discover three protoplanets around newborn star
... on one of the two recently published research papers. “This technique offers a promising new direction to understand how planetary systems form.” The technique that the two teams used was the study of subtle changes in the wavelength...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
...79 known moons, Jupiter could pass for a planetary system all on its own, but now a new ...diameter and Ganymede, the largest Galilean, is the ninth largest object in the Solar System. Most of the moons of Jupiter though are not so massive and about 60 ...
22 January 2016
Possible “Planet Nine” Discovery Announced
... – if it's out there, they've found it.” Alessandro Morbidelli, planetary scientist at the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, in Nice, .... “One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of planet ...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... of the same exomoon orbiting at a distance of 20 planetary radii around its host planet was announced. Kepler-1625b ...our own Solar System, if it turns out to be real then it may yield new insights into the development of planetary systems and may ...
