Planetary

Agency 29/11/2023 385 views 10 likes There are 28 small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission, which involves about 100 companies in total. These…

Rochester Institute of Technology's Joel Kastner, a professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy, and a team of researchers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered…

<!-- -->The new analysis also includes criteria for justice, along three dimensions.A team of scientists first introduced the concept "planetary boundaries" almost 15 years ago to identify major Earth systems that were at risk of…

A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC -- using observations from NASA's TESS telescope -- presents the detection of a system of two planets slightly larger than Earth orbiting a cold star in a synchronized…

When a lander descends toward the moon -- or a rocky planet, asteroid, or comet -- the exhaust plume of the rocket interacts with the surface, causing erosion and kicking up regolith particles. The resulting blanket of dusty debris can…

The upcoming transit marks completion of 1 journey of Jupiter in its zodiac path. Rahu is already present in the Aries zodiac which is creating the Guru Chandal YogThe upcoming Guru Transit i.e Jupiter, will transit into Aries from Pisces…

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth's first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect an asteroid as a planetary defense technique. On September 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft collided…

The James Webb Space Telescope -- the most precise telescope ever built -- was decisive in discovering the frozen forms of a long series of molecules, such as carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, methanol and even more complex molecules,…

In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars, orbit relatively close to our star. The large gas and ice giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune, on the other hand, move in…

WASHINGTON : The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could…