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Researchers at the American space agency say that the latest investigation of the galactic wind has revealed a chemical composition that appears to be alien. In other words, these winds are not made of the same particles as the solar system.
The discovery was made using the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX... |
1 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce the discovery of a new series of extrasolar planets, this time organized in a number of star systems. Instances where multiple planets spin around the same star – such as is the case with the solar system – are not that common, apparently.
In fact, the new ... |
27 January 2012
03:08 GMT |
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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft – the fastest robotic explorer ever built – is celebrating its sixth anniversary flying through space. The probe is heading for Pluto, but won't get there until 2015. At this point, all systems are nominal, and everything is going according to plan.Officials from the ... |
20 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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A popular theory among astronomers is that the inner solar system was subjected to a large number of impacts shortly after the planets were formed. Meteorites, asteroids and comets struck everything in their path, especially Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury and the Moon. The idea provides an elegant explanation for why Ea... |
5 January 2012
11:07 GMT |
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A team of geologists analyzing a puzzling rock sample discovered that it was made up of a type of crystal that had never before been encountered in nature. Scientists know all there is to know about this material, but only because they created it in the lab. Now, they hypothesize that the rock is in fact a meteorite.... |
4 January 2012
04:45 GMT |
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A group of experts say that a comet which was only recently discovered is well on its way to a mid-December collision with the Sun. The object is part of a class of comets called sungrazers, meaning they move very closely to the surface of the star during their pass through the inner solar system.
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6 December 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Experts with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, and the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) confirm that the Voyager 2 spacecraft has received and completed instructions sent to it on November 4, regarding the switch to a backup set of thrusters.
These particular motors are respon... |
15 November 2011
09:01 GMT |
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A new set of computer simulations has revealed that the solar system may have contained an additional planet when it first developed, an object that was extremely massive by the look of things. The space body must have been ejected a long time ago, the team adds. Certain interpretations of the new model even indicate... |
11 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Shortly after the Sun formed, the protoplanetary disk around it began to differentiate, showing signs of clumping. The largest such clumps grew even larger, and eventually became planets, but others still turned into large asteroids. A new study indicates asteroid 21 Lutetia as such a space rock.
The main batch of ... |
11 November 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Officials with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, say that they have recently sent a new set of commands to the Voyager 2 space probe, which is currently located on the outskirts of the solar system. The command called on the spacecraft to switch to a backup set of thrusters.
The commands ... |
7 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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A team of astronomers using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope recently managed to identify a rain of comets striking the inner sections of a nearby solar system. According to experts, the event is reminiscent of the Late Heavy Bombardment, a similar event that affected our own solar system.
The event was discovered... |
20 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that Uranus got such a tilted orbit after being subjected to repeated impacts from comets. In the past, astronomers believed that only a single, devastating blow was sufficient to tilt the massive gas giant.
In addition to providing a better ... |
10 October 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Astronomers have been struggling to explain numerous odd properties displayed by Mercury and Uranus for many years now, but leading theories were just discredited over the past few days. Now, astronomers begin to search for new explanations of what actually happened. This line of inquiry is very difficult to push f... |
7 October 2011
09:50 GMT |
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When our planet formed, it may have inadvertently trapped some of the gases in its surroundings in pockets inside its newly-formed crust. This interesting proposal was recently made by a group of experts. The team members argued that analyzing the gas could reveal the history of the solar system.
If what they are ... |
27 September 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Currently, our solar system appears to be traveling inside a localized bubble of sorts. Astronomers believe that the star and all its planets, including Earth, are changing their position in the Milky Way through a series of interconnected cavities in the interstellar medium (ISM).
This medium plays a very importa... |
26 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Experts from the Lunar & Planetary Institute say that they may have discovered the remnants of long-destroyed world beneath the ices of Antarctica. The rocks they uncovered appear to have originated in a dwarf planet-sized object that no longer exists in the solar system.What this implies is that the space rock was d... |
6 September 2011
07:56 GMT |
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As astronomers count down the years until a NASA spacecraft makes its way to the Kuiper Belt, many experts are currently making predictions about what the probe will find once it flies past the orbit of Pluto. The object is the cause of a dispute that has been raging on for about 5 years now.
Members of the Inter... |
6 September 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency recently announced the launch of a new website, which they said is dedicated to exploring the solar system in a virtual environment. Users will be treated to a panoply of images and animations that will bring neighboring celestial bodies closer than ever before.This interactiv... |
5 September 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Vito Technology have announced a special, Back to School update for their popular iPhone app, Solar Walk. Featured in Apple promo videos and boasting real 3D TV support, Solar Walk version 1.8 now brings more detailed Earth structure, 3D models of main satellites with real time trajectories and 3 new educational movi... |
1 September 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Since the Sun first formed, about 4.6 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system have been shifting their positions non-stop. At this time, the trend is less obvious, but in the earliest days gas giants such as Jupiter ran wild. Now, a study looks at how the planet influences the solar system.Jupiter is the l... |
25 August 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Celestia is a dreamer's software, but in the same time is one heck of a challenge. Amazingly there's a ton of astronomy software out there, most of them working on every major platform, but feature wise, Celestia has to be one of the most complex and fun to use in this really narrow niche. Celestia was orig... |
24 August 2011
10:55 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the Moon is younger than researchers first calculated. It's either that, or it evolved in different patterns over the past few billion years. It may even be that it collided with another Moon.The widely-accepted hypothesis at this point... |
18 August 2011
03:05 GMT |
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NASA physicists operating the two identical Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) space probes say that one of the spacecraft was able to catch a view of Comet Elening, as it was passing through deep space last week.These two telescopes work together to produce 3D views of the Sun, but they are located ver... |
12 August 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The number of objects in our solar system just got bigger, with the recent detection of what may very well be three previously-unknown dwarf planets. The objects were discovered near the orbit of Pluto, which is itself classified as a dwarf planet. However, Pluto is not the only celestial body in this class in the Ku... |
4 August 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Engineers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) moved the NASA Juno spacecraft to its designated takeoff site yesterday, July 27. The maneuver was then followed by the mating of the probe with its Atlas 5 delivery system, that will take it to Jupiter.At this point, Juno is scheduled to launch on Friday, Aug... |
28 July 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Years ago, NASA mission controllers managing the Pioneer spacecraft detected a faint anomaly in the telemetry data the probes were relaying back to Earth. It appeared as if they were drifting slightly off course, although no clear reasons for these events were made obvious. A new study clears the mystery.Investigator... |
27 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of two new scientific studies, it would appear that the material which makes up Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars did not originate in the protoplanetary disk around the Sun. When the star formed, not all of the gas clouds that collapsed to ignite it made it into the star. The leftover mater... |
24 June 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Astronomers are really curious about the fate in store for our solar system, and so many teams have taken many approaches to finding out what the future holds. Scientists at the University of Leicester say that studying white dwarfs is one of the best methods of knowing the Sun's future.White dwarfs can be found... |
23 June 2011
08:38 GMT |
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According to a new set of calculations compiled by researchers at the American space agency, it would appear that the Voyager 1 spacecraft may exit the solar system, and enter interstellar space, a lot earlier than previously thought. In fact, this could happen at any time.The new calculations are based on data provi... |
16 June 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Back when the solar system was still in its infancy, and the Sun was only a shadow of what it was to become, one of our gas giant planets played an important role in determining the ultimate appearance of the system, and potentially Earth's chances of supporting life. That planet was Jupiter.For billions of year... |
7 June 2011
08:11 GMT |
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The main goal of the Voyager 1 mission is to discover and analyze the heliopause, the boundary beyond which the solar wind no longer blows. In other words, the spacecraft has to find out where our solar system ends and the interstellar medium begins, and this objective may have been achieved. According to NASA, the s... |
1 June 2011
03:14 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that our neighboring planet managed to somehow grow to half of its final size in just 2 million years, back when the solar system was still in its infancy.
This type of massive growth spurt is not common in planetary formation, which usually tak... |
26 May 2011
02:12 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the discovery of a new mineral in an ancient meteorite, which was most likely formed when the solar system was in its earliest days. The new material is very peculiar, and it needs special conditions in order to form. Experts discovered it while analyzing the carbonaceous chondrite c... |
10 May 2011
03:17 GMT |
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In a life briefing held on Thursday, April 28, officials at the American space agency said that the two Voyager space probes NASA launched more than three decades ago are now nearly at the edge of the solar system. The instruments are still operational, even after all this time. These two spacecraft are the farthest ... |
29 April 2011
03:16 GMT |
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According to astronomers, our solar system is traveling through space inside a structure known as the Local Bubble. In fact, this is but one in many cavity-like structure that appear to exist in the interstellar medium at our location in the Milky Way. The interstellar medium (ISM) is a term experts use to refer to a... |
5 April 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Throughout the Universe, astronomers have discovered the signature of formaldehyde, a chemical that is now a poison to the human body, but which is now considered to be the source of all organic carbon solids that permeate our solar system, and enabled life to develop here. Organic chemicals are a special class of su... |
5 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Astronomers propose that micrometeorite bombardments were primarily responsible for the cooling of early climates on Mars and Earth, nearly four billion years ago. During these events, pieces of space rock no bigger than a sugar grain swooshed through the two atmospheres at great speeds. Scientists behind the new res... |
2 April 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Some time ago, the IBEX spacecraft surveying the heliosphere discovered what could best be described as a “ribbon” of energy and particles permeating this protective sheet. Now, experts with the mission finally get some insight into the nature of this ribbon.
The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (I... |
2 April 2011
05:20 GMT |
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A series of researches conducted on meteorites provided experts with a new understanding of what our solar system looked and behaved like in its earliest days. The work revealed that dust grains which eventually allowed for the formation of planets tended to bounce around a lot. According to astronomers, the entire s... |
4 March 2011
03:34 GMT |
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Our solar system may contain a massive celestial body we know close to nothing about, astronomers say. They explain that the presence of such an object would go a long way towards explaining the large number of comets being driven from the Oort Cloud towards the Sun.This space body may be a very large planet, a team ... |
15 February 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Using the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), investigators were recently able to conduct a series of studies on our solar system. The survey they conducted revealed the existence of 20 new comets, 134 near-Earth objects (NEO) and some 33,000 asteroids.
With all the new discoveries, our solar system ... |
2 February 2011
02:17 GMT |
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Astronomers analyzing the behavior the comet 17P/Holmes exhibited during its last three visits to the inner solar system say that we might see the celestial body blow up in 2014, when it heads towards the Sun for another pass. The object revealed a mysterious and amazing flare three times before, while flying by the ... |
26 January 2011
08:55 GMT |
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A quarter of a century ago, a NASA spacecraft flew past one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system, the gas giant Uranus. The Voyager 2 spacecraft, on its way to exit the heliosphere, took the only close-up images of this planet and its moons.The mission, which is still ongoing, is managed by experts at th... |
22 January 2011
06:42 GMT |
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The second-largest asteroid in our solar system, Vesta, apparently just gave birth to a new object recently, a mini-asteroid that has been dubbed 1999 AT10. This space rock, which boasts a violent history, could be used to derive more data on the earliest days of the solar system.
One of the most interesting thin... |
8 January 2011
03:55 GMT |
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According to the recent discoveries of a scientific investigation, it would appear that water ice and organic molecules are common place in the solar system, and especially on asteroids making their way among the planets. Astronomers were able to make an impressive breakthrough in this field of research when they wer... |
3 January 2011
06:59 GMT |
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A new study proposes an interesting explanation for the regular variations that the biodiversity on our planet exhibits almost like clockwork. Experts now believe that the wobbling path our solar system takes as it's traveling through the Milky Way may have something to do with this. One such extinction event ta... |
23 December 2010
04:06 GMT |
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The Information Technology Division of Stony Brook University (SBU) is investigating a data leak after a file containing student names associated with university IDs was leaked online.SBU is a public university located in Stony Brook, Long Island with a secondary campus in Manhattan. As of fall 2010 it has 24,594 stu... |
22 December 2010
05:28 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is developing a new technique of producing highly-detailed, three-dimensional images of minute samples of material. The method works under extreme pressure conditions as well.The new effort, which experts believe could le... |
17 December 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Astronomers announce that 596Scheila, a space object that has been known for some time, and which was until now believed to be an asteroid, has just revealed that it actually has a tail and come. This, by all definitions, makes is a fully-fledged comet. Experts say that cases in which space rocks turn out to be in fa... |
13 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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For decades, astronomers have had problems with explaining the very structure of the solar system, as in figuring out why is it that planets and asteroid belts within are arranged the way they are. A new theory now explains the structure of the solar neighborhood with great elegance.When looking at our solar system f... |
10 December 2010
09:14 GMT |
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