June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...and use of space in order to avoid contamination of the Earth or compromise the search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Let’s imagine that a research laboratory, selected to make preliminary examinations of samples from Mars, finds that...
03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
...discovery that would redefine our knowledge of the Solar System's evolution," Sheppard explained. Prior to finding... proposed the presence of an unknown planet on the periphery of the Solar System that was keeping these orbits in place. Planet X as it...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... be made about a potential successor system. The development of autonomous systems, particularly in the field of robotic exploration of the Solar System and the use of robots to support human missions, is a top priority for Germany. At the same time...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
.... It should come as no surprise then that these extra-solar planets, or ‘exoplanets’, have also been a subject of interest... really astonishing though. Before 51 Peg b, we thought that the solar system should be typical. In fact, it was this very idea...
