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If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...
As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...
Now, in three papers that together exceed 150 pages, Guàrdia and two collaborators have proved for the first time that instability inevitably arises in a model of planets orbiting a sun. “The result ...
If this is the case, Beer and his colleagues argue in their research paper, it is unreasonable to base our understanding of all planetary systems on the one around the Sun. They go on to speculate ...
Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...
Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...
In that paper, they predict a 50 percent chance that our solar system will be pushed away from the galactic core by three times its current distance of 26,660 light-years.
The Arizona Scale Model Solar System is a collection of 10 informational signs stretching from the Kuiper Space Sciences Building on the UA Mall to Main Gate at the west edge of campus.