More Planets Than Stars – Exoplanets and Our Little Blue Ball
To say that the Universe is a big place would be a huge understatement. It is difficult to fathom just how big it is. When we hear that there are an estimated 10 sextillion to 1 septillion stars in...
View ArticleCuriouser and Curiouser: A Mars Curiosity Update
After the Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as the Curiosity rover, dropped down the rabbit hole and safely landed on the surface of Mars there was much ado about the first images and hints at a...
View ArticleGet Your Daily Dose of Discovery: Seeing the Solar System Through Distant Eyes
There are spacecraft and rovers at work right this moment collecting data on planets, moons and other solar system bodies. These sophisticated instruments are beaming back data to Earth on a nearly...
View ArticleMore Planets Than Stars! Exoplanets and Our Little Blue Ball
Our solar system comes with planets of all sorts of sizes and compositions. Not long ago, it was possible to debate if there were any other planets in the Universe other than those of our solar...
View ArticleBad Calculation: The Case of the Shrinking Comet and the Age of Solar System
Ten years after launching, the European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft caught up to its target: Comet 67P. In 2014, Rosetta, now 250 million miles from Earth, traveled along with the comet while it...
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