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The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical bodies that orbit it, bound by its own gravitational pull. The Solar System was thought to have formed 4.6 billion years ago. The Sun makes up the vast majority of the Solar System's mass.
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DEC 19, 2017Space & Astronomy
Just around two months ago, a cigar-shaped space rock that astronomers say originated from another stellar system came z ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 14, 2017Videos
Kepler-90 is a distant star system residing around 2,545 light years away from us that NASA now contends has our solar s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 13, 2017Space & Astronomy
New Horizons made history in 2015 when it flew past Pluto and captured the clearest-ever photographs of the dwarf planet ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 05, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft received rare commands from NASA last week after the United States-based space agency ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2017Space & Astronomy
If monitoring the Earth from above is on your to-do list, then two of the best ways to go about it are with drones or sa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 24, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen charging station. Credit: FuelCellWorks As the first generation of mass-produced hydrogen ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 22, 2017Videos
In the middle of October, news sites lit up with the headline that astronomers found the first-known interstellar space ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2017Videos
From time to time, explosions take place on the surface of the Sun, creating what are called coronal mass ejections (CME ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you went to Mars and took a closer look at some of the planet’s steepest slopes, then you would probably come a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 10, 2017Technology
"We have demonstrated that smart greenhouses can capture solar energy for electricity without reducing plant growth, whi ...Written By: Julia TraversNOV 08, 2017Videos
You probably hear the term 'space rock' getting thrown around a lot, but there are several kinds of space rocks, and it' ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 08, 2017Technology
The Navajo Nation has long been a major energy provider for the Southwest but has not had widespread access to electrici ...Written By: Julia TraversNOV 07, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Sun is the bright power plant at the center of our solar system; its heat warms the surfaces of the innermost planet ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 06, 2017Videos
Jupiter is the most massive planet in the solar system, and given that knowledge, it's not too absurd to think that Jupi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you were to ask any average Joe to describe what space is like in between all the planets in our solar system, they&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2017Space & Astronomy
Space rocks are a hot commodity lately; namely asteroids. Not only have several of these skimmed past the Earth within u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola ...Written By: Daniel Duan
DEC 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Just around two months ago, a cigar-shaped space rock that astronomers say originated from another stellar system came z
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 14, 2017
Videos
Kepler-90 is a distant star system residing around 2,545 light years away from us that NASA now contends has our solar s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 13, 2017
Space & Astronomy
New Horizons made history in 2015 when it flew past Pluto and captured the clearest-ever photographs of the dwarf planet
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 05, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft received rare commands from NASA last week after the United States-based space agency
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If monitoring the Earth from above is on your to-do list, then two of the best ways to go about it are with drones or sa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 24, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen charging station. Credit: FuelCellWorks As the first generation of mass-produced hydrogen
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 22, 2017
Videos
In the middle of October, news sites lit up with the headline that astronomers found the first-known interstellar space
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Videos
From time to time, explosions take place on the surface of the Sun, creating what are called coronal mass ejections (CME
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you went to Mars and took a closer look at some of the planet’s steepest slopes, then you would probably come a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although Pluto resides 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, the once planet turned dwarf planet appears to be m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been searching the galaxy for potentially-habitable exoplanets for years, but it’s not every day
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 10, 2017
Technology
"We have demonstrated that smart greenhouses can capture solar energy for electricity without reducing plant growth, whi
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 08, 2017
Videos
You probably hear the term 'space rock' getting thrown around a lot, but there are several kinds of space rocks, and it'
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 08, 2017
Technology
The Navajo Nation has long been a major energy provider for the Southwest but has not had widespread access to electrici
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 07, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Sun is the bright power plant at the center of our solar system; its heat warms the surfaces of the innermost planet
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2017
Videos
Jupiter is the most massive planet in the solar system, and given that knowledge, it's not too absurd to think that Jupi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you were to ask any average Joe to describe what space is like in between all the planets in our solar system, they&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers witness asteroids and comets whizzing through our solar system on a consistent basis, it’s not e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Space rocks are a hot commodity lately; namely asteroids. Not only have several of these skimmed past the Earth within u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan