14 April 2021
Emirates partners with Japan for its 2022 lunar rover mission
... exploration strategy, which is centred around building new knowledge capabilities, inspiring future generations to pursue space science and research, and fostering global collaboration. If the mission is completed successfully, the UAE and Japan...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... present or past form of life. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) [1] defines five planetary protection categories with.... The EURO-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers,...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as ...at Europa’s South Pole” 2014. In Science Vol. 343, Issue 6167, pp. 171-174. doi:10.1126/science.124705 W. B. Sparks, B. E. Schmidt,...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with the same resolving power, enabling revolutionary science in...now grown into one of the most exciting fields in all of science. This is the study of extra-solar planets (exoplanets), which...
