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Caliban's War is a 2012 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey and the second main volume in The Expanse series. Its story expands the political conflict among Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets while investigating a dangerous development related to the alien protomolecule. The novel combines sp...

2312 is a hard science fiction novel written by Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2012. The narrative is set exactly 300 years in the future, depicting a highly colonized solar system where humanity lives on terraformed planets, asteroids, and traveling space habitats called terraria. The plot foll...

Astrum is a YouTube channel dedicated to exploring space exploration through meticulously researched documentaries featuring archival footage, scientific data visualizations, and expert analysis of missions and discoveries by NASA, ESA, and other international space agencies.

Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer whose work focused on comets, meteors, and artificial satellites. In 1950 he proposed the "dirty snowball" model, describing a cometary nucleus as a mixture of volatile ices and dust whose heating near the Sun produces a coma and tails. He also direct...

Abaddon's Gate is a 2013 science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, serving as the third installment in The Expanse series. The story follows humanity's first encounter with the Ring, an enigmatic alien structure constructed by the protomolecule at the edge of the solar system. As political faction...

NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System offers an interactive 3D visualization of our planetary system. Users can explore planets, moons, and asteroids with detailed data and conduct simulated flybys to study their orbits and characteristics. This tool is beneficial for educators, students, and anyone inter...

Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906-2004) was an American astronomer who made significant contributions to the study of comets and meteors. While working at Harvard College Observatory, he proposed in 1950 the 'icy conglomerate' model (popularly known as the 'dirty snowball' theory) suggesting that comet nu...

Blue Remembered Earth is a 2012 hard science fiction novel by Alastair Reynolds and the first book in the Poseidon's Children trilogy. Set in the 22nd and 23rd centuries, the narrative explores a near-future solar system where humanity is largely confined to Earth by a powerful artificial intelligen...

Tom Gehrels was a Dutch-American astronomer who worked at the University of Arizona from 1925 to 2011. He founded the Spacewatch survey program, which uses systematic astronomical observations to identify and track small bodies in the Solar System, including near-Earth asteroids. His work helped est...

Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by Charles Stross set in a future solar system where humanity has become extinct and sentient robots continue to operate. The protagonist is Freya, a pleasure-model robot whose design and inherited social role leave her searching for purpose in a soc...

Clark R. Chapman is an American planetary scientist whose research focuses on asteroids, impact cratering, and the geological history of solar-system bodies. His work has included studies of asteroid surfaces and compositions, the effects of impacts on planets and moons, and the assessment of hazard...

Eleanor Helin (1932-2009) was an American astronomer who studied asteroids and comets, especially objects that pass close to Earth. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she helped establish and lead the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program, known as NEAT. Her observing and survey work contributed to...

Hal Weaver is an American planetary scientist and astronomer whose research includes comets and other small bodies in the solar system. He has used space- and ground-based observations to investigate cometary nuclei, atmospheres, and activity. Weaver served as project scientist for NASA's New Horizo...

Johann Elert Bode was a German astronomer who lived from 1747 to 1826. He helped popularize the Titius-Bode law, an empirical numerical pattern proposed to describe the spacing of planetary orbits, and used it in discussions surrounding the search for additional planets. Bode also published Uranogra...

Gareth Williams is a British-American astronomer associated with the Minor Planet Center, the international service that collects and distributes observations and orbital information for small bodies in the Solar System. His work has included the processing and cataloging of data on asteroids, comet...