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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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FEB 13, 2024Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to send back breathtaking images of the cosmos, to include plan ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 07, 2024Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s first Galilean moon, Io, is one of the most fascinating objects in the entire solar system, exhibiting h ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) rover has been exploring Jezero Crater on Mars since it landed there in February 2021. ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 26, 2024Space & Astronomy
How do solar systems form, and are these formation mechanisms similar across the universe? This is what a recent study p ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 25, 2024Space & Astronomy
The Little Helicopter That Could, also known as NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, has unfortunately ended its miss ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 25, 2024Space & Astronomy
Objects expand and contract from heating and cooling, and planetary objects are no different, which includes our nearest ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 19, 2024Space & Astronomy
On this historic day in space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canave ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 17, 2024Plants & Animals
How could solar energy facilities contribute to insect populations? This is what a recent study published in Environment ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 17, 2024Space & Astronomy
What can samples collected from a comet almost 20 years ago tell us about the history of comets and our solar system? Th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 17, 2024Space & Astronomy
Solar energy is traditionally known for using massive solar panels that collect sunlight and convert it into clean energ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 08, 2024Space & Astronomy
How did our solar system form and is this process similar in other solar systems throughout the universe? This is what a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 08, 2024Space & Astronomy
In space, not everything is how it seems, and this might be the case with Uranus and Neptune, as a study scheduled to be ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 27, 2023Space & Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was recently bestowed a Group Achievement Award from NASA ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 26, 2023Space & Astronomy
As NASA’s Psyche mission continues its 2.2 billion-mile (3.6 billion-kilometer) journey to asteroid 16 Psyche orbi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 22, 2023Space & Astronomy
In humanity’s attempt to identify asteroid threats to Earth, NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field In ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 20, 2023Space & Astronomy
Could Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, hold the ingredients for life as we know it? This is what a recent study publi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 13, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal and presented at this week’s American Geophysical Union Annu ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 12, 2023Space & Astronomy
Recent discoveries made at this week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 in San Francisco revea ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 12, 2023Space & Astronomy
Just in time for the holidays, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently used its Near-Infrared (NIRCam) i ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 11, 2023Earth & The Environment
Geomagnetic storms cause auroras, also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora austral ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2023Space & Astronomy
Can amino acids, the key building blocks of life, survive high-speed impacts from a spacecraft orbiting another world? T ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 08, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy uses a new method to challenge previous studies regarding the discoveries o ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 04, 2023Space & Astronomy
Can planets form under extreme conditions, such as high levels of ultraviolet radiation? This is something a recent stud ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 01, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) c ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 13, 2024
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to send back breathtaking images of the cosmos, to include plan
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 07, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter’s first Galilean moon, Io, is one of the most fascinating objects in the entire solar system, exhibiting h
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) rover has been exploring Jezero Crater on Mars since it landed there in February 2021.
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 26, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How do solar systems form, and are these formation mechanisms similar across the universe? This is what a recent study p
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 25, 2024
Space & Astronomy
The Little Helicopter That Could, also known as NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, has unfortunately ended its miss
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 25, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Objects expand and contract from heating and cooling, and planetary objects are no different, which includes our nearest
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 19, 2024
Space & Astronomy
On this historic day in space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canave
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 17, 2024
Plants & Animals
How could solar energy facilities contribute to insect populations? This is what a recent study published in Environment
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 17, 2024
Space & Astronomy
What can samples collected from a comet almost 20 years ago tell us about the history of comets and our solar system? Th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 17, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Solar energy is traditionally known for using massive solar panels that collect sunlight and convert it into clean energ
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 08, 2024
Space & Astronomy
How did our solar system form and is this process similar in other solar systems throughout the universe? This is what a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 08, 2024
Space & Astronomy
In space, not everything is how it seems, and this might be the case with Uranus and Neptune, as a study scheduled to be
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 27, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was recently bestowed a Group Achievement Award from NASA
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 26, 2023
Space & Astronomy
As NASA’s Psyche mission continues its 2.2 billion-mile (3.6 billion-kilometer) journey to asteroid 16 Psyche orbi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 22, 2023
Space & Astronomy
In humanity’s attempt to identify asteroid threats to Earth, NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field In
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 20, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Could Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, hold the ingredients for life as we know it? This is what a recent study publi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 13, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal and presented at this week’s American Geophysical Union Annu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 12, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Recent discoveries made at this week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 in San Francisco revea
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 12, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Just in time for the holidays, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently used its Near-Infrared (NIRCam) i
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 11, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Geomagnetic storms cause auroras, also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora austral
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Can amino acids, the key building blocks of life, survive high-speed impacts from a spacecraft orbiting another world? T
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 08, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy uses a new method to challenge previous studies regarding the discoveries o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 04, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Can planets form under extreme conditions, such as high levels of ultraviolet radiation? This is something a recent stud
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 01, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) c
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc