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The Sun: A Great Ball Of Iron?
July 17, 2002 — For years, scientists have assumed that the sun is an enormous mass of hydrogen. But in a poster presentation to be delivered July 21-26 at the Meteoritical Society's annual meeting in Los ... > full story -
Newfound Planetary System Has "Hometown" Look
June 14, 2002 — After 15 years of observation and a lot of patience, the world's premier planet-hunting team has found a planetary system that reminds them of our home solar ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover 11 More Small Moons Of Jupiter
May 28, 2002 — The discovery of 11 small moons orbiting Jupiter leapfrogs the number of that planet's moons to 39, nine more than the record of the previous champ, ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Jupiter-Like Weather On Brown Dwarfs
May 24, 2002 — For the first time, researchers have observed planet-like weather acting as a major influence on objects outside our solar system, scientists from UCLA and NASA report May 23. The UCLA-NASA team has ... > full story -
NASA To Try To Contact Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Once Again
March 1, 2002 — NASA scientists will try to contact Pioneer 10 this week to see if the plucky little spacecraft’s signal can still be heard — 30 years after its launch. On March 2, 2002, scientists ... > full story -
Solar Wind Buffets Vast Jupiter Region, Team Approach Reveals
March 1, 2002 — Scientists simultaneously using a combination of NASA spacecraft have seen into the workings of an invisible whirling bubble of charged particles surrounding Jupiter. That bubble, Jupiter's ... > full story -
Farewell, Io -- NASA's Galileo Orbiter Paying Last Visit To Jupiter's Restless Moon
January 17, 2002 — NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart past Jupiter's moon Io on Thursday in the veteran spacecraft's last and closest flyby of any of the giant planet's four major ... > full story -
Jupiter's Io Generates Power And Noise, But No Magnetic Field
December 11, 2001 — A great roar of acoustic waves near the north and south poles of Jupiter's moon Io shouts about the power of the volcanic moon. The wave data, new pictures and other information collected ... > full story -
Simulation Explains Mystery Of Giant Planets' Tiny Moons
December 3, 2001 — In what could be the ultimate in fast-forward, Cornell University planetary scientists have used one of the world's most powerful computing clusters to simulate motions of the small moons of ... > full story -
More Planets Emerge With Solar System-Like Orbits
October 16, 2001 — An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new extrasolar planets, bringing to nearly 80 the number of planets found orbiting nearby stars. The latest discoveries, supported by the ... > full story
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