Icarus

About Icarus

Icarus is devoted to the publication of original contributions in the field of Solar System studies. Manuscripts reporting the results of new research - observational, experimental, or theoretical - concerning the astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and other scientific aspects of our Solar System or extrasolar systems are welcome

News

Artist's illustration of a galaxy, a comet, and dust particles.
19 Nov 2019
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
Using the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have detected an unidentified infrared emission band from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner in addition to the thermal emissions from silicate and carbon grains.
Figure 1
03 Apr 2018
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)
An international team of researchers including the Kavli IPMU have observed the most distant individual star, 9 billion light years from Earth.