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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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SEP 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
Looking all around in interstellar space surrounding our solar system, scientists are finding more evidence of brown dwa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
It is understood that Mars was probably once a water hole with tons of rivers and streams of running water, but after it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been observing the Sun with various kinds of equipment for ages to get a better understanding of how it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earlier this year, Stephen Hawking teamed up with billionaire Yuri Milner to propose a new kind of revolutionary space t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
Juno is out there in space studying the atmosphere and magnetic field of Jupiter, among other things, so we can get a be ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 02, 2016Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 31, 2016Space & Astronomy
While some scientists are peering out into the great beyond looking for a supposed Planet Nine, others have recently fou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
When it comes to meteorites hitting the Earth, it’s a safe bet that they could have come from nearly anywhere. Out ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the major new missions going on in our Solar System right now is Juno. It reached its destination at Jupiter in J ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
There has been a long-standing belief that asteroids, comets, and other kinds of space rocks might all actually be lefto ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
A lot of people like going tanning at the beach, or even in their own backyards. Some have tan-lines, and some don&rsquo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
SpaceX is reportedly in the middle of testing a new type of engine rocket that could be utilized for Martian travel. &nb ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are always out to learn more about how our Solar System formed, the only problem is, we don’t have a ti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is rather distant from the Sun, found on the opposite side of the Asteroid Belt than our Solar System’s in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
There is currently no proof that a ninth planet exists in our Solar System, but there is circumstantial evidence that su ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earth is the oddball in our Solar System because it supports life. There has, to date, not been any evidence of intellig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Kepler mission has been going Rambo in discovering new exoplanets in other systems across the Milky Way galaxy. In t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is all over the place in our Solar System with all kinds of spacecraft types. They’re trying to learn more ab ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Looking all around in interstellar space surrounding our solar system, scientists are finding more evidence of brown dwa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It is understood that Mars was probably once a water hole with tons of rivers and streams of running water, but after it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been observing the Sun with various kinds of equipment for ages to get a better understanding of how it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earlier this year, Stephen Hawking teamed up with billionaire Yuri Milner to propose a new kind of revolutionary space t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Juno is out there in space studying the atmosphere and magnetic field of Jupiter, among other things, so we can get a be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Last month, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago announced in the journal Science that they h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While some scientists are peering out into the great beyond looking for a supposed Planet Nine, others have recently fou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When it comes to meteorites hitting the Earth, it’s a safe bet that they could have come from nearly anywhere. Out
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the major new missions going on in our Solar System right now is Juno. It reached its destination at Jupiter in J
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There has been a long-standing belief that asteroids, comets, and other kinds of space rocks might all actually be lefto
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A lot of people like going tanning at the beach, or even in their own backyards. Some have tan-lines, and some don&rsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
SpaceX is reportedly in the middle of testing a new type of engine rocket that could be utilized for Martian travel. &nb
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are always out to learn more about how our Solar System formed, the only problem is, we don’t have a ti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter is rather distant from the Sun, found on the opposite side of the Asteroid Belt than our Solar System’s in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There is currently no proof that a ninth planet exists in our Solar System, but there is circumstantial evidence that su
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earth is the oddball in our Solar System because it supports life. There has, to date, not been any evidence of intellig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Kepler mission has been going Rambo in discovering new exoplanets in other systems across the Milky Way galaxy. In t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is all over the place in our Solar System with all kinds of spacecraft types. They’re trying to learn more ab
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is quite the interesting character. It turns out there are two sides to Io’s per
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard