17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
A gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster with a mass more than one million billion times that of the Sun, has been found by astronomers just two billion years after the Big Bang. Its overwhelming size ...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
We call our planet Earth, and yet it is one of the most water-logged bodies in our Solar System. But where did it all come from? It has long been assumed that the molecule which sustains life as we know it, collected in substantial volumes to make ...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... scientists, the best time to head to Mars is when the rate of energetic solar particles streaming from the Sun are the highest; I,e at a solar maximum. That might seem counterintuitive, but say the team headed by Dr. Mikhail...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... where and how these particles form, to protect astronauts.” NASA’s first investigation to fly aboard the Gateway is a Sun-oriented space weather experiment to observe solar particles and solar wind. These phenomena are unpredictable and...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... on-orbit contamination analysis and predictions. A number of the instruments are designed to monitor the magnetic field of the Sun and so they need to be protected from any magnetic fields generated by the spacecraft. The spacecraft electronics and...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...like Earth - a rocky world in a one-year orbit around a Sun-like star. Rather than just give up, we thought, “Well, let... Every 90 days, to keep the solar arrays pointing at the Sun, we rotated the spacecraft by 90 degrees. During these manoeuvres, the...
