The Solar System
News items about the Solar System as a whole and its environment
Also news items concerning more than one planet
Jun 10, 2011
"Kepler's laws don't account for the subtle gravitational perturbations that planets exert on one another. By rearranging the planets, you perturb these perturbations, and it's not obvious what would happen."
Jun 8, 2011
"The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research."
Jun 6, 2011
May 31, 2011
"Last year, scientists claimed to have solved the faint young Sun paradox. They were wrong. Now the paradox is back and more puzzling than ever."
May 14, 2011
"We've featured many space images here on Universe Today that have been produced by imaging enthusiasts who take raw images from a mission or spacecraft and refine them into what many consider works of art. Michael Benson has taken this activity to a level 'above and beyond' by creating exhibits, books, and movies portraying the images taken by our robotic emissaries to the solar system."
Mar 18, 2011
"Here are Ted Stryk's notes from the sessions he attended in the afternoon of Thursday, March 10, at the 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference."
Mar 16, 2011
A planetary science grad student reports on selected talks at Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Mar 11, 2011
"Wednesday, March 9, at the 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference included sessions on Martian sediments; Deep Impact's Hartley 2 flyby; the lunar crust; impact experiments; and Venus science."
Jan 3, 2011
"The data that once suggested the Sun is orbited by a distant dark companion now raises even more questions"
Pictures of solar system planets and objects