Search

... more than 95% icy particles, while the rings of Uranus and Neptune are darker and may have higher rock content. Since the rings of Saturn ... the Kuiper belt existed in the outer solar system beyond Neptune. First the researchers calculated the probability that these large ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2016 - 5:58am - 0 attachments

... same also for the fainter planets further away, of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto which you look at with telescopes. Also, if anything ... orbits it would also fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune which are much larger. It can't miss them all indefinitely because they ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 23 2016 - 7:32am - 0 attachments

... solar system has a planet in a distant orbit, way beyond Neptune, such as the planet X candidates, it could lead to instability of our ... an extra Planet X in the outer solar system, well beyond Neptune. For those who fear such things, this planet is not something to worry ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 10 2016 - 4:42pm - 0 attachments

... This mass ejection will push Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune out to what was assumed a safe distance.  However, Dr. Veras ... four known giant planets -- most notably Uranus and Neptune. The most likely result is ejection from the solar system, ... change the fate of the solar system. Uranus and Neptune in particular may no longer be safe from the death throes of the Sun. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2016 - 11:32am - 0 attachments

... first parallax for a star that is notable for hosting a Neptune-sized planet. Relatively few giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are ... for the planet, finding it to be about half as dense as Neptune, closer to Saturn's density. "In 2007, we began our long-term ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2016 - 6:50am - 0 attachments

... first parallax for a star that is notable for hosting a Neptune-sized planet. Relatively few giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are ... for the planet, finding it to be about half as dense as Neptune, closer to Saturn's density. "In 2007, we began our long-term ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2016 - 4:21pm - 0 attachments

... the tracks left by the small bodies that move well beyond Neptune.  And the calculations may mean even more than 10 exist. New ... it. This situation is reminiscent of the discovery of Neptune, in which the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier was the first to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2016 - 11:47am - 0 attachments

... this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than ... points out. "A scattered gas giant will look like a cold Neptune, while a planet that formed in place will resemble a giant Pluto with ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2016 - 9:16pm - 0 attachments

BATON ROUGE - For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime, called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2016 - 1:59pm - 0 attachments

... about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In ... The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side. Credit: Caltech/R. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2016 - 2:42pm - 0 attachments