After 37 years, Voyager continues its mission into stellar space. Leaving the Solar System, Voyager becomes the farthest thing we have sent everywhere. Our Earth’s ambassador makes amazing accomplishment. In the past, it was...
Saturn’s huge solid core is about ten to twenty times bigger than Earth. Its temperature is extremely high – 21.000 degrees. Comparing to the Sun, it is twice the temperature of its surface. This...
As everyone believes, water was the cradle of life, at least in the case of our planet. Therefore, we had the tendency to believe that if water existed on other planets, extraterrestrial life was...
The universe is filled with inexplicable phenomenons and it takes only a couple of minutes to discover them. Some worlds are so inhabitable that it is quite a miracle that life appeared on Earth. Take a...
NASA is now planning a mission to send a craft to Europa with the purpose of searching for life below the thick ice. Mission will probably not launch for another ten years or so....
“This is my new music called Voyager. As a musician, I have always been intrigued by outer space. I wrote this during the past summer months and chose to feature a very basic tour...
After an eight-year long journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is quickly approaching Pluto. As of 21 January 2014, its distance from Pluto is about 4.29 AU (An AU is roughly the distance of the Earth...
A look at the solar system’s most distant worlds Uranus, Neptune and Pluto — Uranus, a gas giant with the most extreme axial tilt of any known planet and its wildly orbiting moon Triton;...
Chief Scientist of Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. James Garvin, takes us on a journey of Earth, the moon, and our neighboring planets.
A good introduction to the Solar System. Did you know that Mars has a mountain three times higher than mount Everest?
A look at the top five places within our Solar System where life may yet exist. A look at Venus, Titan and other moons and planets.
Observations show that the sun’s global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived. This happens about every eleven years. The Suns electromagnetic influence, the current sheet, extends to the outer...
Saturn’s moon Titan is covered with lakes full of liquid hydrocarbons. We know there is wind on Titan but these lakes don’t seem to have any waves. This video looks at various explanations as...
The Nemesis theory postulates that there is a star orbiting the Sun every 26 million years. As trhis star nears the Sun its gravitational disturbances sends comets flying through the Solar System and one...
Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere similar to the early Earth. Here is an awesome BBC documentary looking at Titan and the Huygens mission. Huygens was an...
An interesting video on the creation of Stars and the Solar System with great animations. A good explanation of how life could have began on Earth.
What will happen to Earth when the Sun is about to die? 5 billion years from now the Sun will run out of fuel and swell to emcompass the inner planets. The Swelling will...
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