From Phosphine and Penguin Poo to Life on Venus?
- 8th Mar 2024
- Author: Jasneet Kaur
In the thick clouds of Venus, Professor Jane Greaves found phosphine. It’s also found in penguin poo, so could there be life on Venus?
Space NOW Blog
-
![A picture which shows the Sun (top left), Venus (right planet) and little phosphine molecules floating around Venus.]()
NASA/ Robert Lea -
![Satellites in Orbit]()
ESA Orbits and Their Descriptions
- 19th Feb 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
We often talk about satellites, but what do all their different orbits mean? What's the difference between a Lagrange Point and a GEO?
-
![Intuitive Machines (IM-1) mission.]()
NASA Intuitive Machines - IM-1 mission
- 7th Feb 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Another private company, Intuitive Machines, attempts to land on the Moon in 2024 - but will it be the first to succeed?
-
![A rendering of the Peregrine spacecraft on the lunar surface.]()
Astrobotic Technology Peregrine Mission 1
- 8th Jan 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Others have tried, but will Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission triumph in becoming the first private mission to successfully land on the Moon?
-
![The SLS will take flight again in 2024.]()
NASA What’s Happening in Space in 2024
- 28th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
Are you ready for arguably the biggest year for space in over fifty years?
-
![Artist’s impression of Beagle 2 fully deployed on the surface of Mars.]()
ESA Beagle 2 - 20 years later
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
20 years ago, Beagle 2 (a feat of British engineering) journeyed to Mars but didn’t phone home to say it landed. What happened to Beagle 2?
-
![OSIRIS-REx completed stage one of its mission.]()
NASA Space Highlights 2023
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
2023 was a Lucy-JUICEy kind of year for space, let’s look back at some of the highlights!
-
![Illustration of the Psyche Mission.]()
NASA/ JPL- Caltech/ASU/Peter Rubin Psyche Mission
- 26th Sep 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
The Psyche mission will study an asteroid that may be very similar to the core of the Earth and other rocky planets.
-
![Illuminated crescent Moon and Venus.]()
Stephen Rahn (Public domain) Solar System Summer: Venus
- 26th Jul 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis - Education Presenter
Known as the Earth's twin, Venus is far from the habitable and pleasant world that ours is.
-
![Pluto, as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015]()
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Solar System Summer: Pluto
- 22nd Jun 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
Just because it is no longer classed as a planet, doesn’t mean that Pluto isn’t worth learning about.
