
Space Tales: Light Sails and Magnetic Shields
New technologies are being explored to propel satellites even faster and to help protect future human explorers from the vagaries of space. […]
New technologies are being explored to propel satellites even faster and to help protect future human explorers from the vagaries of space. […]
New types of telescopes and spacecraft will help us gather better and more detailed knowledge of the solar system. […]
When we have to send a rocket into space, we need to consider the payload, the rocket itself, and the fuel. Above all, a rocket must achieve escape velocity, the acceleration, to escape the Earth’s gravity. […]
The Jumping Jupiter idea and the Grand Tack theory are different variations of the Nice model that try to explain the solar system’s current appearance. […]
The Nice model explains a lot about the solar system. It tells us about how the planets migrated, how the icy planets were formed, and accounts for the Kuiper Belt’s hot and cold populations. […]
Four billion years ago, the inner solar system experienced an unexpected event, a kind of bombardment took place. The first hints of this event were revealed in the Apollo missions. […]
Do all Jupiter-sized planets behave the same? Do they have the same mass? If our Jupiter was put much closer to the sun, what would happen to it? […]
Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars in other stellar systems. However, they have some characteristics that differentiate them from other planets wandering around the universe. What are these differences? […]
Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that take over our Jupiter in size, mass, temperature, and anything that leads to the presence power of a planet. They are too big to miss, yet are somehow mysterious in how they emerged. […]
Solar winds can cause major disruptions to our solar system, especially to a planet like earth. […]
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