February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The...life somewhere in our solar system then these icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. ...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...manager said in an agency blog post. Aiming to do for Jupiter’s frigid moons what Cassini did for Saturn’s weird and wonderful ...that Juice will also help us to make new discoveries about Jupiter itself. May could prove to be a busy month for launches...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will perform detailed investigations of the Jupiter system at extremely low temperatures (even colder than -200 C at Jupiter arrival, and during solar eclipses). Contrarily, Solar Orbiter will perform in-situ and direct...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
...of Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system and Jupiter’s innermost moon, was also inadvertently one of the first steps ... tried to calculate when the Moon would appear from behind Jupiter, it would sometimes show up later than predicted. The ...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
...its relative position and its mass, it has been likened to Jupiter in our own solar system and it is assumed to play ... In our Solar System, Mercury orbits the Sun at 0.39 AU and Jupiter at 5.2 AU and between them sit a further three planets. It ...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
...has only the same mass as Saturn instead of some Jupiter masses.” Despite these positive results, challenges still remain. ...the protoplanet has collapsed to the density of a planet like Jupiter, its disk will heat up more like it is undergoing ...
