Ariel is one of the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision programmes; its mission is to measure and examine exoplanets and explore their atmospheric properties.
Innovative self-healing materials have been developed for testing on the International Space Station by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The James Webb Space Telescope will revolutionise our understanding of the atmospheres of planets found orbiting other stars.
Since the first detection of a planet...