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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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DEC 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is the largest known planet in our Solar System today, and astronomers have a lot of questions about it, but one ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the questions astronomers constantly ask is, “where did the solar system come from?” Image Credit: NA ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Looking for water in our solar system is a good way to begin our search for extraterrestrial life, but it's not exac ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which originally launched in 1997 to study Saturn up close, began a completely new orbi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
Mercury is one of the Solar System’s most mysterious planets, and it’s also the closest one of the Sun. Astr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
A couple of specific spots on the red planet in our Solar System, Mars, might just foster zones of interest after scient ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 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 Bouchard
DEC 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have you ever wondered what’s going to happen to the Earth in the distant future of the Solar System? You’re
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is the largest known planet in our Solar System today, and astronomers have a lot of questions about it, but one
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the questions astronomers constantly ask is, “where did the solar system come from?” Image Credit: NA
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Looking for water in our solar system is a good way to begin our search for extraterrestrial life, but it's not exac
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which originally launched in 1997 to study Saturn up close, began a completely new orbi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Mercury is one of the Solar System’s most mysterious planets, and it’s also the closest one of the Sun. Astr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A couple of specific spots on the red planet in our Solar System, Mars, might just foster zones of interest after scient
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars
...
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