31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... their atmospheres. Spitzer's best-known work may be detecting the seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system - the largest number of terrestrial planets ever found orbiting a single star - and determining their masses and densities. In 2016...
23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
... again, as scientists suspect that more than one terrestrial planet is in orbit around the star. Barnard’s Star...out to be, the next closet habitable exoplanet to us. If additional planets are indeed discovered around these stars, it is hoped that ESO...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
...kilometres of Venus on its way to explore the smallest terrestrial planet in the Solar System. BepiColombo consists of two scientific... three out of five on the MMO to examine the planet’s atmosphere and space environment. Now, following the detection ...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
...the presence of phosphine on Venus may turn out to stem from a non-living process, no such process on a terrestrial planet is currently known to science. “The discovery of phosphine is an exciting development,” said S. Pete Worden, Executive Director...
30 March 2020
Study shows astronaut urine could help build moon bases
... dusty material that coats the surface of many terrestrial planets and moons – to build the walls of intended habitats. However, like... building houses on this planet with bricks, you still need some sort of adhesive ...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... a rocky-iron body which is thought to resemble the interior of terrestrial planets like our own. On its journey, Psyche will also be used ...years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede...
