Whether anything could live in Europa’s subsurface ocean depends on what kind of salt it contains. Now scientists have found out.
- Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
Astronomers are excited about sub-surface oceans in the solar system, as they may support life. Now Pluto joins the club.
We could be exploring the oceans of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s icy moons in a couple of decades. Here’s what we need to work out.
From inflatable space stations to trips to asteroids and maybe even Mars, the next decade of human spaceflight will include many exciting firsts.
The Martian may not be completely scientifically accurate but that is certainly not a problem.
Gennady Padalka has returned to Earth from the International Space Station. He has broken the record for time in space and will be the first person on Earth to have eaten salad grown in space.
Space scientists have a busy decade ahead with plans to visit Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and other interplanetary bodies all on the cards.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is nearly two decades old. Is that a problem?
Launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, Sputnik 1 became the world’s first artificial satellite – a “simple” battery-powered radio transmitter inside an aluminium shell about the size of a beach ball. This…
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