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Atmosphere
The atmosphere consists of a layer of gas surrounding a planet. It is held in place by the gravitational forces of the planet itself. The atmosphere of Earth contains nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases.
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MAR 31, 2019Space & Astronomy
If you haven’t already noticed, all the spacesuits that NASA astronaut use when conducting extravehicular activiti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 31, 2019Space & Astronomy
As expected, a team of two NASA astronauts comprised of Nick Hague and Christina Koch performed a controversial spacewal ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 27, 2019Space & Astronomy
Astronomers use a bevy of different methods to analyze distant exoplanets, but the GRAVITY instrument attached to the Eu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 26, 2019Space & Astronomy
The International Space Station has been bustling with a full crew ever since expedition 59-60 first arrived at the Eart ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 24, 2019Space & Astronomy
Space agencies from around the globe have sent a plethora of spacecraft to Venus over the past several decades in an att ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 21, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth' ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
When we burn fossil fuels for energy, such as coal, oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosp ...Written By: Tiffany DazetMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
Devastation hit southern Africa from Cyclone Idai last week, which struck Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe and continues ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 19, 2019Earth & The Environment
Flooding in the Midwest has reached dangerous levels, with the death toll currently at three people and another two miss ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 18, 2019Space & Astronomy
It’s been several decades since NASA last sent astronauts to the Moon in the name of science, and in an announceme ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 18, 2019Microbiology
K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura v ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 17, 2019Space & Astronomy
Studying forests and gauging their growth can be a grueling and tedious line of work, especially when mosquitoes are out ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2019Space & Astronomy
The green light was provided on Friday for a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society highlights the impact that coal-fired powe ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 12, 2019Space & Astronomy
A Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, March 14th, ferrying Ex ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2019Space & Astronomy
There’s been a lot of hype in the last couple of years in relation to colonizing Mars and building a permanent sci ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2019Chemistry & Physics
During the first decade of the 21st century, the world saw a rapid surge of research and development activities surround ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 11, 2019Earth & The Environment
Tidal marshes are a unique environment and only very specifically adapted species are able to survive in coastal marshla ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 10, 2019Space & Astronomy
The past week was a stressful one for SpaceX and NASA alike. It was just last Saturday that the commercial space company ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 09, 2019Earth & The Environment
In theory, biofuels are a sustainable alternative to oil and gas. In practice, however, they are expensive. With current ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 09, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and published in the journal Nature Communications has turned ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 08, 2019Chemistry & Physics
For almost a decade, thanks to an increased effort in exoplanet hunting such as NASA's Kepler mission, astronomers h ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 06, 2019Space & Astronomy
Astronauts have been to the Moon before, but only for short periods. One of humankind’s long-term goals is to esta ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 05, 2019Space & Astronomy
An empty fuel tank forced NASA to retire its Kepler Space Telescope at the end of last October, but that doesn’t n ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
MAR 31, 2019
Space & Astronomy
If you haven’t already noticed, all the spacesuits that NASA astronaut use when conducting extravehicular activiti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 31, 2019
Space & Astronomy
As expected, a team of two NASA astronauts comprised of Nick Hague and Christina Koch performed a controversial spacewal
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers use a bevy of different methods to analyze distant exoplanets, but the GRAVITY instrument attached to the Eu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 26, 2019
Space & Astronomy
The International Space Station has been bustling with a full crew ever since expedition 59-60 first arrived at the Eart
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 24, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Space agencies from around the globe have sent a plethora of spacecraft to Venus over the past several decades in an att
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 21, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth'
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
When we burn fossil fuels for energy, such as coal, oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosp
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Devastation hit southern Africa from Cyclone Idai last week, which struck Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe and continues
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 19, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Flooding in the Midwest has reached dangerous levels, with the death toll currently at three people and another two miss
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 18, 2019
Space & Astronomy
It’s been several decades since NASA last sent astronauts to the Moon in the name of science, and in an announceme
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 18, 2019
Microbiology
K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura v
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 17, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Studying forests and gauging their growth can be a grueling and tedious line of work, especially when mosquitoes are out
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2019
Space & Astronomy
The green light was provided on Friday for a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society highlights the impact that coal-fired powe
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 12, 2019
Space & Astronomy
A Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, March 14th, ferrying Ex
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2019
Space & Astronomy
There’s been a lot of hype in the last couple of years in relation to colonizing Mars and building a permanent sci
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
During the first decade of the 21st century, the world saw a rapid surge of research and development activities surround
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Tidal marshes are a unique environment and only very specifically adapted species are able to survive in coastal marshla
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 10, 2019
Space & Astronomy
The past week was a stressful one for SpaceX and NASA alike. It was just last Saturday that the commercial space company
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 09, 2019
Earth & The Environment
In theory, biofuels are a sustainable alternative to oil and gas. In practice, however, they are expensive. With current
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 09, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and published in the journal Nature Communications has turned
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 08, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
For almost a decade, thanks to an increased effort in exoplanet hunting such as NASA's Kepler mission, astronomers h
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 06, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Astronauts have been to the Moon before, but only for short periods. One of humankind’s long-term goals is to esta
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 05, 2019
Space & Astronomy
An empty fuel tank forced NASA to retire its Kepler Space Telescope at the end of last October, but that doesn’t n
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard