Solar System

Most-distant solar system object ever observed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2018
Outer solar system experts find ‘far out there’ dwarf planet

By David Aragorn
The outer solar system awaits—but getting there may not be as easy as we’d like 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2018
We’re under a time crunch.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe About to Leave Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside the Solar System. Currently, the probe is approximately 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Aliens Don’t Exist: Our Solar System Is an Anomaly, Study Claims 0
- Another Point of View, From Around the Web, Space
- July 1, 2018
All of this adds a new layer to the search for life on other planets: apart from finding planets in the “Goldilocks” area, where they are neither too far nor too close to their star….

By Claude Limberger
Citizen scientists discovered an unusual new solar system not even NASA could find 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2018
In NASA’s efforts to explore the endless expanse of space, the agency eventually came to a realization: there is simply too much data. Missions like the one embarked upon in 2009 by the Kepler space telescope yield such a tremendous amount of data that there’s no efficient way for an individual scientist or even a team of scientists at NASA to pour through it all. That’s when they made a realization — instead of handling everything internally, NASA could make this data publicly available so that citizen scientists all over the world would be able to dig in.

By David Aragorn
Mars And Earth May Not Have Been Early Neighbors 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2017
A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters posits that Mars formed in what today is the Asteroid Belt, roughly one and a half times as far from the Sun as its current position, before migrating to its present location.

By David Aragorn
NASA Press Release Says Our Solar System Has a 9th Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2017
NASA has stated that it’s quite likely that our solar system is home to a massive, distant ninth planet. Its existence could shed light on some burning questions about the cosmos.

By David Aragorn
Solar system Graveyard 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2017
Where spacecraft go to die

By David Aragorn
Planet Nine hypothesis supported by new evidence 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 13, 2017
Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our Solar system was announced. However, this hypothesis was subsequently called into question as biases in the observational data were detected. Now astronomers have used a novel technique to analyze the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they point out that there is something perturbing them: a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-Sun separation.

By David Aragorn
Something big is warping the outer solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 6, 2017
The plane of our solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto—but much closer than Planet Nine.

By David Aragorn