Many images of planets have been manipulated. So have we seen their true colours? Not always, it turns out. But Jupiter’s red spot really is red.
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Juno’s visit to Jupiter promises to pick up on many of the unsolved mysteries that still remain in understanding of the Jovian system.
Why Planet Nine should be found in the next few years … if it exists.
We take our understanding of the solar system for granted, but it took centuries to figure out. The original writings of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo and others show how they sparked a revolution.
Study suggests that comets and meteorites could have seeded planets beyond our own solar system with life.
A new theory could change our understanding of the moons in our solar system – and the genesis of life itself.
After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. Here’s some of what scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.
In the search for life on other planets in the universe we need to find the right kind of star, and it needs to have the right kind of space weather.
Recent research explaining why Mercury is so dark raises many new questions.
No one nation should be allowed to go it alone and develop a mining industry in space. It needs an international effort and Australia, with a long history in mining, can play its part.
The search for new objects, including new planets, in our solar system has turned up some interesting finds. There have been a few failures over the years too.
Missions including ExoMars, Juno and Rosetta could make some major discoveries in 2016.
A new planet in our solar system? Let’s get direct proof before we start naming it.
Scientists say they have evidence that the solar system has an extra planet, bigger than Earth and way beyond Pluto. So how come we never knew this before?
From the high-speed journey to Jupiter to solar eclipses, meteor showers and planetary alignments visible in the skies above – add these space highlights to your 2016 calendar.
Prepare to be amazed …
Dawn’s mission director and chief engineer describes his ‘dream come true’ job – and how the new data coming back from Ceres could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of our solar system.
Jupiter had a big influence on how our solar system’s planets formed. New research – led by a high school student – tried to nail down how rare Jupiter analogs really are in other planetary systems.
Why finding molecular oxygen on comet 67P is a really big deal.
The early solar system was a busy place with plenty of meteorite impacts on the new planets and moons. But finding evidence of such impacts on Earth can be tricky.
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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Outreach Manager, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, CSIRO
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PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
