20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... for example have a radius around four times that of Earth, whereas Jupiter and Saturn’s radius is 10 times that of Earth. It is easy... ways to the giant planet cores of our own neighbours (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). Its not all good news ...
12 May 2021
Scientists discover liquid water inside a meteorite
... conditions would place the site of formation far outside of Earth’s orbit, likely beyond even the orbit of Jupiter,” Tsuchiyama said in a statement on the Ritsumeikan University’s website. This idea backs up previous studies which suggest that...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... received of the effect of the collision of fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet with Jupiter. They showed that the area of the resulting catastrophe in Jupiter’s atmosphere covered an area the size of the Earth. Over the last 600...
March 2016
Space for art
...solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed stunning details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s ... stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... by images and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These...a strange tide-locked rotation of 59 days and a year of 88. Jupiter used to have 11 satellites, while Saturn, with nine, was the ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... bounded exospheres are seen throughout the solar system, including the Moon and some Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and are thought to be ubiquitous in the systems of exo-planets scattered throughout the galaxy. BepiColombo in cruise configuration...
