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... icy Oort Cloud, more than 1,000 times more distant than Neptune. Because comets formed so far from the sun, they tend to have high ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2013 - 4:36pm - 0 attachments

... of these unusual objects to the outer planets Uranus and Neptune, when viewed through early telescopes, and it has been catchy enough to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 3:05pm - 0 attachments

... zoom in all the way to the solar system to see how small Neptune's orbit is relative to the Oort Cloud, or zoom right out to see how ...

Article - David Brin - Feb 20 2013 - 7:48pm - 0 attachments

... least 60 percent of such stars have planets smaller than Neptune. However, most weren't quite the right size or temperature to be ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2013 - 5:44pm - 0 attachments

... times the diameter of Earth are typically like Uranus and Neptune, which have a rocky core surrounded by helium and hydrogen gases and ... size of Jupiter, while 10 percent have planets the size of Neptune. Marcy compared this to rocks on a beach – large boulders are rare, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2013 - 6:30pm - 0 attachments

... one of four giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) to be ejected in almost half of the simulations. Two ... view of the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. As the binary orbit becomes eccentric, this eventually excites the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2013 - 5:26pm - 0 attachments

... zoom in all the way to the solar system to see how small Neptune's orbit is relative to the Oort Cloud, or zoom right out to see how ...

Article - David Brin - Nov 20 2012 - 3:21pm - 0 attachments

The Higgs boson, whose discovery was confirmed by CERN on July 4th to the exacting 5-sigma level required in particle physics (meaning that the probability that the bulge in the data indicating a particle with mass-energy in the range of ~125 GeV is a r ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Aug 12 2012 - 10:36pm - 0 attachments

A review of Dr Lonnie W Aarssen's “Some Bold evolutionary predictions for mating in humans” Quite often papers are published which get slated for being “politically incorrect” I recently witnessed a rather interesting example of that. However when readi ...

Article - Sophia Siedlberg - Sep 25 2007 - 1:56pm - 0 attachments

The path of the LHC experiments to the successful observation of a Higgs boson has not been the smoothest I could think of, with delays in construction, incidents, and the like; but we are finally there. And now, with over 10/fb of data fully analyzed and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2012 - 4:27am - 0 attachments