22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... Saturn’s moon Titan will be the next target for a future Solar System mission. The two finalists battling it out for the chance to ...seek to answer some of the biggest questions in our solar system today.” At the same announcement, NASA also advised ...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... up of material that could have remained unchanged since it clumped together during the first 10 million years of the Solar System's formation. The asteroid may therefore contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
...being a would-be interstellar visitor rather than a local inhabitant of the Solar System knocked off its course. So far, the visitor part is all...only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that it will leave and head...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
...on the chemical compositions of planetary atmospheres outside our solar system, an international team led by researchers at the University... when compared with the metal abundances for the Solar System (in astronomy, any element except for hydrogen and...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...300 minor planets located in the far reaches of the Solar System, including 139 new objects that were not previously published... objects (TNOs). TNOs are any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than ...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... that window would have meant missing the appointment with our target, comet Wirtanen. Everything in the Solar System constantly moves, including our starting place, our destination and the planets we wanted to use as slingshots to accelerate...
