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Planets around other Stars
Most of the detected exoplanets have revealed their presence by small effects that they have on their star.
Sun and its interactions with the Earth and the solar system
Sun and its interactions with the Earth and the solar system
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The small bodies in the solar system include comets, asteroids, the objects in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud, small planetary satellites, Triton, Pluto, Charon, and interplanetary dust.
Manned Mission to Mars
A manned mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction, engineering and scientific proposals throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.Dark Energy, Dark Matter
Dark energy and Dark matters: The greatest discoveries are the unexpected ones
Earth Surface and Interiors
Earth, the largest and densest rocky planet, was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. The Earth's interior is divided into four layers which is typical of rocky planets.
Climate Variability and Change
The Climate Variability and Change program seeks to deliver new knowledge and applications for decision-making in climate-sensitive industries and to understand and project climate variability and change and its impacts to improve adaptive responses and to inform policy and decision making.
Planets
All eight planets can be seen with a small telescope; or binoculars. And large observatories continue to provide much useful information. But the possibility of getting up close with interplanetary spacecraft has revolutionized planetary science.
Water and Energy Cycle
The Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area studies the distribution, transport and transformation of water and energy within the Earth System.
Weather System
The weather system includes the dynamics of the atmosphere and its interaction with the oceans and
land.
Heliophysics
The term heliophysics was coined in 1981 to denote the physics of the entire Sun: from centre to corona.
Magnetosphere
The study of the region of space near the Earth helps to determine changes in the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere in order to enable specification, prediction, and mitigation of their effects.
Heliosphere
The heliosphere is a bubble of charged particles in the space surrounding the Solar System, "blown" into the interstellar medium (the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates the galaxy) by the solar wind.
Carbon Cycle
Carbon is a very important element, as it makes up organic matter, which is a part of all life. Carbon follows a certain route on earth, called the carbon cycle.
Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior.
Black Holes
Black holes are objects so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole.
Space Environment
Space environment is a branch of astronautics, aerospace engineering and space physics that seeks to
understand and address conditions existing in space that affect the operation of spacecraft.
Inner Solar System
The Solar System has been broken down into two major parts by astronomers: the inner Solar System and the outer Solar System.
Outer Solar System
Planetary Science missions to the outer planets help reveal secrets about the solar system by observing those outer distant worlds up close.
The Universe
The Universe is the sum total of all that exists in space and time.
The Solar System
The solar system is located 26,100 light years from the centre of the Milky Way and was formed about 4540 million years ago from a globe of gas and dust.
The Milky Way Galaxy
Our galaxy is considered to be a typical spiral galaxy about 75,000 light years in diameter.
Stars
Stars are accretions of gas that radiate energy through nuclear fusion reactions. Stars form from the gravitational contraction of a cloud of gas and dust with a central core forming rapidly and the remainder of the surrounding cloud falling onto the core to form the star.
