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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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JAN 07, 2025Space & Astronomy
How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to ad ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 06, 2025Space & Astronomy
What is the official process of planetary formation and evolution and is this process uniform for all planetary bodies t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
How old is our Moon, and could its true age be different than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study publi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 17, 2024Space & Astronomy
Does extra salty water, also known as brines, currently exist or ever existed on Mars, and why haven’t we found ev ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 16, 2024Space & Astronomy
What processes are responsible for the intense volcanic activity on Jupiter’s innermost Galilean moon, Io, and wha ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 10, 2024Space & Astronomy
What processes are responsible for dust storms on Mars? This is what a study presented today at the American Geophysical ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 09, 2024Space & Astronomy
What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 03, 2024Space & Astronomy
Do the moons of Uranus have interior liquid oceans like the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? This is what a recent study pub ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 02, 2024Space & Astronomy
Did Venus have oceans in its ancient past and could they have supported life as we know it, or even as we don’t kn ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
How can researchers explore the depths of ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what the Sensing With ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study publi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 20, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nat ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 19, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can sulfur stones and mysterious patterns on Mars teach us about past liquid water life and the potential for ancie ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 13, 2024Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has done an extraordinary job teaching us about our Sun while achieving record distances ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 30, 2024Space & Astronomy
Could a moon that orbits Uranus billions of miles away have an interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 25, 2024Space & Astronomy
How does Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have such a methane-rich atmosphere? This is what a recent study published ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 22, 2024Space & Astronomy
How does extra salty water, also known as briny water, form and evolve on worlds without atmospheres, such as asteroids ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 15, 2024Space & Astronomy
How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? Th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 11, 2024Space & Astronomy
How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Americ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 09, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Taurid asteroids, also known as the Taurid swarm, are a group is asteroids hypothesized to be leftovers chunks from ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
How much water ice could be present within the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the Moon’s south pole? Thi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 01, 2024Space & Astronomy
What secrets can Pluto’s moon, Charon, reveal about the formation and evolution of planetary bodies throughout the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 07, 2025
Space & Astronomy
How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to ad
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 06, 2025
Space & Astronomy
What is the official process of planetary formation and evolution and is this process uniform for all planetary bodies t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How old is our Moon, and could its true age be different than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study publi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 17, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Does extra salty water, also known as brines, currently exist or ever existed on Mars, and why haven’t we found ev
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 16, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What processes are responsible for the intense volcanic activity on Jupiter’s innermost Galilean moon, Io, and wha
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 10, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What processes are responsible for dust storms on Mars? This is what a study presented today at the American Geophysical
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 09, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 03, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Do the moons of Uranus have interior liquid oceans like the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? This is what a recent study pub
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 02, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Did Venus have oceans in its ancient past and could they have supported life as we know it, or even as we don’t kn
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How can researchers explore the depths of ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what the Sensing With
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study publi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 20, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nat
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 19, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can sulfur stones and mysterious patterns on Mars teach us about past liquid water life and the potential for ancie
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 13, 2024
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has done an extraordinary job teaching us about our Sun while achieving record distances
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system?
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 30, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Could a moon that orbits Uranus billions of miles away have an interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 25, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How does Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have such a methane-rich atmosphere? This is what a recent study published
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 22, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How does extra salty water, also known as briny water, form and evolve on worlds without atmospheres, such as asteroids
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 15, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? Th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 11, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Americ
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 09, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Taurid asteroids, also known as the Taurid swarm, are a group is asteroids hypothesized to be leftovers chunks from
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How much water ice could be present within the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the Moon’s south pole? Thi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 01, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What secrets can Pluto’s moon, Charon, reveal about the formation and evolution of planetary bodies throughout the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc