• Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 13th, 2010
Magnetic Mirror Effect to Reproduce IBEX Data

Magnetic Mirror Effect to Reproduce IBEX Data

Solar physicists are looking for confirmations

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 6th, 2010
15 Percent of Milky Way Stars Have Solar Systems

15 Percent of Milky Way Stars Have Solar Systems

New statistics yield this promising result

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 4th, 2010
Age of the Solar System Possibly Miscalculated

Age of the Solar System Possibly Miscalculated

One of the equations may not be accurate

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 30th, 2009
Kuiper Belt Reveals Its Smallest Space Object

Kuiper Belt Reveals Its Smallest Space Object

It lies billions of miles away

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 29th, 2009
Voyager Figures Out Why the Local Fluff Exists

Voyager Figures Out Why the Local Fluff Exists

Basic physics says it shouldn't be there

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 14th, 2009
Where We Are in Space

Where We Are in Space

A classification beyond the solar system

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 4th, 2009
Direct Images of an Exoplanet Taken

Direct Images of an Exoplanet Taken

It orbits a Sun-like star some 50 light-years away

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 20th, 2009
Solar System Looks More Like a Bubble

Solar System Looks More Like a Bubble

Previous theories pictured it looking like a comet

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 11th, 2009
Earth May Have Formed from Meteoritic Material

Earth May Have Formed from Meteoritic Material

The conclusion belongs to a new study

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 10th, 2009
Earth's Oceans May Be Extraterrestrial

Earth's Oceans May Be Extraterrestrial

They may have come from the outer solar system

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 19th, 2009
Earth's Minerals May Have Come from Space

Earth's Minerals May Have Come from Space

Geologists point to the skies for an explanation

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 16th, 2009
The Solar System Ends in a Narrow Ribbon

The Solar System Ends in a Narrow Ribbon

Models predicted otherwise, though

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 7th, 2009
Massive Saturn Ring Discovered

Massive Saturn Ring Discovered

It's located 13 million kilometers away from the planet

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 18th, 2009
Coldest Spot in the Solar System Found

Coldest Spot in the Solar System Found

Oddly enough, it's located on the Moon

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 25th, 2009
New Solar System Event-Timing Method Created

New Solar System Event-Timing Method Created

It makes use of aluminum isotopes

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 21st, 2009
How the First Planets Formed

How the First Planets Formed

Asteroids jumped in size significantly

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 19th, 2009
The Challenges of Navigating a Solar Sail

The Challenges of Navigating a Solar Sail

More than Newtonian physics is needed

 
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