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Dust Models Paint Alien's View of the Solar System
September 23, 2010 — New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets. The models also provide a ... > full story -
Asteroid Found in Gravitational 'Dead Zone' Near Neptune
August 12, 2010 — There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable, called Lagrangian points. Trojan asteroids have been ... > full story -
Pounding Particles to Create Neptune's Water in the Lab
July 22, 2010 — An international group of physicists has drawn up plans to use the new Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research in Germany to expose water molecules to heavy ion beams and generate the same level of ... > full story -
Cometary Impact on Neptune: Herschel Data Point to Collision About Two Centuries Ago
July 20, 2010 — A comet may have hit the planet Neptune about two centuries ago. This is indicated by the distribution of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the gas giant that researchers have now studied. The ... > full story -
Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System
May 7, 2010 — Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. ... > full story -
'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer Space Telescope
April 21, 2010 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. The discovery brings ... > full story -
Neptune's Moon Triton: Summer Sky of Methane and Carbon Monoxide
April 7, 2010 — According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. Astronomers discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ... > full story -
Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
July 9, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > full story -
Mass-Loss Leaves Close-in Exoplanets Exposed To The Core
April 21, 2009 — Scientists have found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. They found that planets that orbit closer than 2% of an ... > full story -
'Super-Neptune' Exoplanet Discovered
January 21, 2009 — Astronomers have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune has a diameter 3.8 times that of Earth and a mass 17 times ... > full story
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