Beyond Earthly Skies

Quarks are elementary particles and they are a fundamental constituent of matter. For instance, a neutron is made up of one up-quark and two...

Our Sun is one of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and it is located approximately 26000 light years from the cente...

An extrasolar planet is basically a planet which orbits a star other than our Sun and a transiting extrasolar planet is one which periodical...

The formation of planets in protoplanetary disks around stars is a messy process and a significant number of protoplanets with masses simila...

Triton is by far the largest moon in orbit around the planet Neptune and with a diameter of 2700 kilometers; Triton is the seventh largest m...

The Tarantula Nebula is an extremely luminous nebula that is located approximately 165000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud and...

Mercury is the closest planet from the Sun and it orbits the Sun once every 88 Earth days. Due to its eccentric orbit, Mercury has a minimum...

Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of the Moon as it will rapidly evaporate on its airless surface or get broken down into hydrogen an...

Jupiter has over twice the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined and it is the archetype of large gas giant planets, es...

Kepler is NASA’s first mission that is capable of finding Earth-sized worlds orbiting other stars and Kepler is a space telescope that is na...