Near-Earth Objects are comets and asteroids that have been pushed by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's neighborhood. They are about 4.5 billion years and can range in size from pebbles or lumps of ice, to rocky or icy worlds nearly 1,000...

Earth-Like Planet Discovered 50 Light Years Away European astronomers have discovered a planet less than 50 light years away. This planet has come to be known as a sort of super Earth. It takes only ten Earth days to orbit its sun (much like our own) and the surface of the planet is scorc...

Voyage to the Planets The solar system holds many scientific mysteries. It is a universe full of wonder. What exactly is it? How was it created? When? Why? These are just a few of the many questions we ask ourselves all the time. In the following, the mysteries of this solar system, how...

The Solar System consists of the Sun, the nine planets and their satellites; the comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust and gas. It is composed of two systems, the inner solar system and the outer solar system. The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Ma...

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet. The only planet larger then Saturn is Jupiter. Saturn is commonly noted for its phenomenal system of rings surrounding this gaseous planet. It is also one of the outer planets. Saturn's pe...

The human conceptualization of the solar system dates back to the beginning of time. The early Egyptians worshipped the sun as a source of life and then the area called space was becoming a curiosity to humans. Throughout history, our knowledge of the solar system has increased and there is stil...

Jupiter And It's Moons Jupiter, the largest of the Jovian planets, reigns supreme throughout the solar system. Named after the Roman god Jove, the ruler of Olympus; "Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and is also the largest planet in the Earth's solar system. It is ...

Alex Provencal April 19, 2004 Professor Mobius Comets: The Known and Unknown Long ago comets were understood by people to be a sword or as a symbol for death, while others thought it was the appearance of the head of a woman with streaming hair which symbo...

ASTRONOMY 104 #1) (A) Issac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is: Two bodies attracted to each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This means that the further apar...

Space Rock . Eros Eros is an asteroid but can be called a minor planet. It orbits the sun that sometimes causes it to closely pass as 14,000,000 miles next to Earth. Scientists believe that Eros comes this close to Earth every 31 years. The last time Eros came close to Earth was back in 19...

Eight Scientist Research Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to know the origin of existence, how life was started, and the source of creation. Many scientists, from ancient Greece to modern civilization, began the search for answers by first studying our solar system, mapping the s...

Towards the end of our solar system lies the smallest of all the nine planets, Pluto. In 1905, Percival Lowell, an American astronomer, found the force of gravity of some unknown planet to be affecting the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. In 1915, he predicted the location of a new planet, and began se...

In the late 1400's to the mid 1500's, people believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Ptolemy stated that the Earth was stationary and that the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around imaginary points, which in turn revolved around the Earth. Copernicus knew that natu...

Aristarchus was not just a man of astronomy. He was also actively involved in mathematics as well as astronomy. He used his knowledge in both fields to discover great advances in the astronomy world like the fact that the earth rotates on its own axis and that the sun is in a fixed position and...

A Comet looks like a star with a tail. Some comets do not have tails, and look like hazy, round spots of light. But most comets have three parts; a nucleus, a head, and a tail. The bright central nucleus may be nearly as large as the earth, which is about 7,900 miles in diameter. The head, or c...

I am often asked this question by members of the general public, and, since I am known to most people who meet me as an enthusiast for space exploration and colonization as well, the question is put to me even more forcefully. Let us face this question head on. Firstly, there are several lessons to...

Astronomy Second Paper 11-27-00 I attended the Wagner College Planetarium(located in Spiro Hall)on November 15, 2000 at 11:00 for research and to observe the stars, planets and our entire solar system more closely. There was a clear dome on the cei...

Earths Beyond Earth: The Search for Other Worlds In early 1990, the first extrasolar planet was detected, surprising everyone by its strangeness. More planets have now been discovered outside our solar system than in it. These planets present many great mysteries to the astronomical world. ...

An asteroid is a small or minor planets that are members of the solar system and move in elliptical orbits. Usually found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A comet is relatively small, rocky, and icy. It revolves around the sun. When a comet passes close to the sun some of the ice turns to...

Astrology has been around 2300 BC (). Philosophers and Astrologers wheeled their lives around man and star relations. Astrology started of how the sun, moon, planets, and stars, are supposedly related to life events (). The key word supposedly. Astrology is nothing more than a psychological a...

Full title: English Summer Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- "One Man's Trash is Another's Treasure"  One theme in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that while the Earth is important to us, it means nothing to alien civilizations. The prolo...

Asteroids are objects in outter space that orbit the sun, but aren't quite large enough to be considered planets. Some scientists refer to them as "minor planets" while others call them "planetoids". They are made up of rocky and metallic materials. They come in many shapes, from round to ...

Jessica Alcalde Earth and Space Saturn SATURN Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and it is the second largest of the nine planets in the solar system. In Roman mythology it was believed to be the god of agriculture, he ate his children. Its Greek name is Cronos. Saturn is ...

Galileo was an Italian physicist and astronomer who with the German astronomer Johannes kelper initiated the scientific revolution that began the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Galileos main interest was astronomy he used the telescope which he invented using optic lenses to see sunspots on the sun loon...

Ancient times have it that a group of people of heritage called the "Sumerians" has documented information about a planet that's beyond Pluto in our solar system in a different orbit. They have it documented as the 12th planet because they counted Earth's moon as a planet and als...