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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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AUG 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
What did NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the asteroid moon, Dimorphos, teach astronom ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 23, 2024Space & Astronomy
How will future Mars astronauts shield themselves from harmful space radiation? This is what a recent study published in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 14, 2024Space & Astronomy
Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? T ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 02, 2024Space & Astronomy
How do giant planets form and is this process slow or fast based on the amount of available dust used to build those pla ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 29, 2024Space & Astronomy
How can 400-year-old sunspot drawings help modern-day scientists with solar cycles? This is what a recent study publishe ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 24, 2024Space & Astronomy
How cold are exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international sci ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 23, 2024Space & Astronomy
Did life ever exist on Mars, and if so, how did it get there? This is the goal of NASA’s Curiosity rover, which ha ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 22, 2024Space & Astronomy
How deep will future landers to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus have to dig to find org ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 17, 2024Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus just received a gift from NASA, but this time it’s not in the form of a spacecraft or lander, but ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 11, 2024Space & Astronomy
What was ancient Mars like? Was it warmer and wetter than it is today or cold and icy like present day Mars? This is wha ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 10, 2024Space & Astronomy
What are dark comets and how are they responsible for delivering water to the Earth? This is what a recent study publish ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 03, 2024Space & Astronomy
Did life exist on ancient Mars? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a team of ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 03, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Earth has asteroids pass by all the time, known as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and NASA recently tracked two of the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 28, 2024Space & Astronomy
How many impacts occurs on the Red Planet per year? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 27, 2024Space & Astronomy
How does the Sun’s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is wh ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 18, 2024Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 11, 2024Space & Astronomy
How unique is the climate of Mars compared to Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
A 2018 study published in Science presented how radar data from the Mars Express spacecraft showed evidence that a lake ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 03, 2024Space & Astronomy
As humanity travels back to the Moon in the next few years and potentially Mars in the next decade, how much of a role s ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 28, 2024Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus has been revealed to have past volcanism across its surface, but could this volcanism be active today? ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 22, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Sun’s magnetic field is an incredibly powerful mechanism that produces equally powerful solar storms, some of ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 16, 2024Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, has long been hypothesized to contain a vast, liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. Bu ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 14, 2024Space & Astronomy
Can gas giant exoplanets larger than Jupiter have less density than the latter? This is what study published today in Na ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 10, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can asteroids teach us about the early solar system and were they responsible for bringing water to the Earth in it ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What did NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the asteroid moon, Dimorphos, teach astronom
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 23, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How will future Mars astronauts shield themselves from harmful space radiation? This is what a recent study published in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 14, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? T
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 02, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How do giant planets form and is this process slow or fast based on the amount of available dust used to build those pla
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 29, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How can 400-year-old sunspot drawings help modern-day scientists with solar cycles? This is what a recent study publishe
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 24, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How cold are exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international sci
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 23, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Did life ever exist on Mars, and if so, how did it get there? This is the goal of NASA’s Curiosity rover, which ha
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 22, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How deep will future landers to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus have to dig to find org
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 17, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus just received a gift from NASA, but this time it’s not in the form of a spacecraft or lander, but
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 11, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What was ancient Mars like? Was it warmer and wetter than it is today or cold and icy like present day Mars? This is wha
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 10, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What are dark comets and how are they responsible for delivering water to the Earth? This is what a recent study publish
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 03, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Did life exist on ancient Mars? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a team of
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 03, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Earth has asteroids pass by all the time, known as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and NASA recently tracked two of the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 28, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How many impacts occurs on the Red Planet per year? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 27, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How does the Sun’s interior function and produce the energy needed to allow life to exist on the Earth? This is wh
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 18, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 11, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How unique is the climate of Mars compared to Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
A 2018 study published in Science presented how radar data from the Mars Express spacecraft showed evidence that a lake
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 03, 2024
Space & Astronomy
As humanity travels back to the Moon in the next few years and potentially Mars in the next decade, how much of a role s
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 28, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The planet Venus has been revealed to have past volcanism across its surface, but could this volcanism be active today?
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 22, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Sun’s magnetic field is an incredibly powerful mechanism that produces equally powerful solar storms, some of
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 16, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, has long been hypothesized to contain a vast, liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. Bu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 14, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Can gas giant exoplanets larger than Jupiter have less density than the latter? This is what study published today in Na
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 10, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can asteroids teach us about the early solar system and were they responsible for bringing water to the Earth in it
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc