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July 14, 2015 1 min read
Get ready to scroll for a while if you visit the site that has been tagged as the most “tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.” The project asks visitors to look […]
The post If the Moon were 1 pixel, it’d take 17 minutes to scroll through the solar system appeared first on Geek.com.
December 31, 2014 1 min read
Why are there 365 days in a year -- and a better question, why is there a fraction of a day left over?
The post Geek Answers: Why are there 365.25 days in the year? appeared first on Geek.com.
September 27, 2014 1 min read
That glass of water you're drinking is billions of years old.
The post As much as half the water on Earth is older than the sun appeared first on Geek.com.
June 27, 2014 1 min read
Venus is our "sister planet" yet we know very little about it. What we do know, though, is amazing. Venus is both the most similar and most alien planet in our solar system.
The post What would it be like to stand on the surface of Venus? appeared first on Geek.com.
May 16, 2014 1 min read
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is an unbelievably huge storm, but it's getting smaller every year and the trend shows no sign of abating.
The post Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is now smaller than ever, could become circular appeared first on Geek.com.
April 14, 2014 1 min read
Tiny Pluto is out there at the edge of the solar system all alone, but company is on the way. NASA’s New Horizons probe is speeding toward Pluto’s neck of the woods with […]
The post Pluto might have harbored an ancient liquid ocean and icy tectonic plates appeared first on Geek.com.
March 27, 2014 1 min read
Conventional wisdom has long held that ring systems would only be present around very large planetary objects like the gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus. That thinking is going straight out the window […]
The post First ring system around an asteroid discovered in outer solar system appeared first on Geek.com.
December 31, 2013 1 min read
2012 was one of the biggest scientific years in memory -- could 2013 measure up? We run through the year's top stories to find out.
The post The most important geek stories of 2013 appeared first on Geek.com.
November 26, 2013 1 min read
When a bright new comet reaches the point in its orbit closest to the sun, astronomers aren't sure if it will shatter under the extreme stress, or survive and put on an incredible show.
The post Comet Ison will be an incredible sight to behold, if it survives the Sun appeared first on Geek.com.
October 30, 2013 1 min read
Astronomers have been finding exoplanets orbiting distant stars for years now, but rarely have they ever spotted a collection of planets arranged like our own solar system. Recent examinations of the star KOI-351 […]
The post Astronomers discover solar system amazingly similar to our own appeared first on Geek.com.
September 18, 2013 1 min read
Most astronomers believe that there is a solid core of heavy elements at the center of both Jupiter and Saturn -- and most other gas giants as well.
The post Geek Answers: What is at the center of a gas giant? appeared first on Geek.com.
September 12, 2013 1 min read
NASA has figured out and confirmed Voyager 1 actually left the solar system in August 2012
The post NASA says Voyager 1 has left the solar system, for real this time appeared first on Geek.com.
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