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Solar System
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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NOV 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbits Saturn in our Solar System, keeping track of not only what happens on Saturn, but ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
The New Horizons spacecraft NASA launched over a decade ago set out with a mission to fly past Pluto, and that it did in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 31, 2016Videos
When you think of the great minds at NASA - the people who take the astronauts into space to explore the solar system - ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2016Videos
Astronomers are still stumped because of the odd tilt that our Solar System has. We can't seem to find any logical expla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
While NASA's Juno probe tries its luck at investigating Jupiter, another probe known as Cassini is investigating the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA has something to be proud about in terms of its 1 Billion-dollar Juno spacecraft, which is currently observing the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
There hasn’t been a serious space race since the Cold War, but now things are starting to heat up again. This time ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
Saturn has well over 60 moons, and interestingly, many of those, including Enceladus and Titan, seem to harbor what astr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the most important experiments astronauts are performing in space today is attempting to grow plants in space. Am ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Thanks to data collected from NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging MESSENGER missi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 24, 2016Space & Astronomy
Billions and billions of years ago, the planet Earth was not like it is today. At one point, Earth did not even have a M ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbits Saturn in our Solar System, keeping track of not only what happens on Saturn, but
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are in awe after observing a stellar flare-up with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The New Horizons spacecraft NASA launched over a decade ago set out with a mission to fly past Pluto, and that it did in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 31, 2016
Videos
When you think of the great minds at NASA - the people who take the astronauts into space to explore the solar system -
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2016
Videos
Astronomers are still stumped because of the odd tilt that our Solar System has. We can't seem to find any logical expla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While NASA's Juno probe tries its luck at investigating Jupiter, another probe known as Cassini is investigating the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA has something to be proud about in terms of its 1 Billion-dollar Juno spacecraft, which is currently observing the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There hasn’t been a serious space race since the Cold War, but now things are starting to heat up again. This time
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Saturn has well over 60 moons, and interestingly, many of those, including Enceladus and Titan, seem to harbor what astr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using the tried and true Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have reportedly found another exoplanet orbiting two stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the most important experiments astronauts are performing in space today is attempting to grow plants in space. Am
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Thanks to data collected from NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging MESSENGER missi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Billions and billions of years ago, the planet Earth was not like it is today. At one point, Earth did not even have a M
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard