18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
...) in a reasonable timescale. Their simulations found that a flyby of Jupiter combined with a Solar Oberth manoeuvre could fling a craft at a ... with C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) via a close encounter with Jupiter. For this method to work, and to reach C/2019 ...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... that takes advantage of a once-in-a-13-year window, when Earth is properly aligned with Jupiter. The spacecraft would use the gravitational pull of Jupiter as a slingshot straight to Triton for an extended 13-day encounter in 2038. The timing would...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
...do not come together naturally – and this type of environment is generally only found in extreme environments like those of Jupiter and Saturn. So, for temperate, rocky worlds like Earth, “it is implausible that PH3 can be produced without biological...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... and colleagues suggest that GJ 1132 b acts a lot like Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is the most volcanically active body in the...friction generated within Io's interior as it is pulled between Jupiter and the other Galilean moons. Caught between its host ...
09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
...planet every year – most of which comes from comets orbiting Jupiter. Located 1,100 kilometres off the coast of Adelie Land,...percent of the incoming extraterrestrial flux originates from Jupiter family comets and the rest from asteroids. Understanding...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
...planet and the two stars. Throw a large planet like Jupiter into the mix, and the system’s dynamics can become very... from the Sun to our planet. Mars is 1.5 au from the Sun and Jupiter is 5.2. The other four systems in the study, did not make the cut....
