An instrument on the Europa Clipper mission might be able to detect biological cells from space.
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The Solar System could be awash with oceans, not on the surface but hidden inside the most surprising bodies
Only about 12kg of oxygen is produced per second on Europa, which is on the lower side of previous estimates from about 5kg to 1,100 kg per second.
Moons and asteroids will be visited by spacecraft from Earth next year.
Planetary analogues are sites on Earth that are so extreme that they replicate those of celestial bodies in our solar system.
If we could go sightseeing across our cosmic neighbourhood, these would be some of the best highlights.
We’re going to get up close and personal with three of Jupiter’s largest moons like never before.
One of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, could contain more water than the Earth.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer and Europa Clipper missions will arrive at Jupiter in the 2030s and provide researchers with unprecedented access to the icy moons orbiting the gas giant.
Jupiter’s moon Io has more than 400 active volcanoes on its surface.
It all starts with a cloud of gas and dust.
There may be life on Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn moon’s Enceladus.
The biggest storm on Jupiter is so big it could swallow all of Earth. But it’s now shrinking, and we’re not sure what that means.
There has never been a dedicated mission sent to the “ice giants”, Uranus and Neptune. But there may be one on the horizon.
As we await the launch of the James Webb Space telescope, it’s timely to look back on what previous generations of telescopes have shown us.
On the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-76b, metal is vaporized in the heat. Studying the atmosphere of extreme planets will reveal more wild and weird weather.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is deep, meaning it may persist even though it is shrinking.
The Lucy mission could revolutionise our knowledge of the Solar System’s history, while the DART mission could help redirect hazardous asteroids in the future.
When two missions to Venus were announced, two others missed out.
From the birth of Jesus Christ to Newton’s discovery of gravity, great conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn have many notable connections in human history.
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor in Planetary Sciences, University of Leicester
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Salford
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Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Astronomer Emeritus, Space Telescope Science Institute and Professor of Practice of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
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Sterrenkenner, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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W J McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
