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A planet is a large astronomical body that orbits a star. They can also be remnants of stars that have formed spherical shapes as a result of their own gravitational forces. There are eight planets in our Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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JUL 18, 2021Earth & The Environment
The axis of the Earth intersects the planet at the magnetic pole, and Earth's poles are known to wander. They can even f ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 17, 2021Earth & The Environment
Solar radio signals from the sun could provide a cheaper and low-power way of monitoring vast expanses of ice sheets, an ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 16, 2021Chemistry & Physics
Concerns about runaway climate change and tipping points of no return are constant sources of fear in our warming world. ...Written By: Matthew LundyJUL 16, 2021Earth & The Environment
High mountain glaciers that are melting in the Tibetan plateau in Asia contain greenhouse gases and should be counted in ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 14, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Nature is in decline; the planet has lost a tremendous amount of biodiversity over the past few years due to human actio ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 11, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found evidence of two mergers of black holes and their companion neutron stars about 900 million light- ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 09, 2021Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope has captured evidence of mysterious free-floating planets, or planets that are alone in deep ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 04, 2021Earth & The Environment
The heat wave that has been devastating communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States may ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 03, 2021Space & Astronomy
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have developed and successfully carried out a CRISPR-Cas9 p ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 03, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers led by the University of Maryland have found that the sun's magnetic field is the reason behind the larg ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 30, 2021Space & Astronomy
In this NASA image from Bill Ingalls, a meteor can be seen in the sky, one far less destructive than the asteroid that c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 27, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the anthropogenic ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 21, 2021Space & Astronomy
An international team led by researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland and the National Centre of Competenc ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 18, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 16, 2021Space & Astronomy
Earth and the planets in the solar system sit within the heliosphere, a giant bubble formed by the charged particles, li ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 16, 2021Microbiology
There may be a trillion species of microbes on the planet, so clearly there's still a lot we don't know about these micr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 15, 2021Genetics & Genomics
We live in an age of information and data, and more is being generated every day. It's estimated that there are about te ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 05, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan have found that heat generated by the impact of small astronomical bodies coul ...Written By: Annie LennonJUN 04, 2021Earth & The Environment
Two new studies suggest that Earth’s most recent ice age, which occurred approximately 20,000 years ago, was not q ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 03, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Science reports on the discovery of a massive shark die-off - nearly 19 million ye ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 02, 2021Earth & The Environment
As hard as it is to imagine, the rolling dunes that we picture now when we think of the Sahara used to be quite differen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 01, 2021Space & Astronomy
Mars has a thin atmosphere without much humidity, making cloudy days rare. But clouds can be found sometimes near the Ma ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 29, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have that there was four times more soot in the pre-industrial Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere than pre ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 21, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Australian National University have discovered the first ever extraterrestrial radioactive isoto ...Written By: Annie Lennon
JUL 18, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The axis of the Earth intersects the planet at the magnetic pole, and Earth's poles are known to wander. They can even f
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 17, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Solar radio signals from the sun could provide a cheaper and low-power way of monitoring vast expanses of ice sheets, an
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 16, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
Concerns about runaway climate change and tipping points of no return are constant sources of fear in our warming world.
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
JUL 16, 2021
Earth & The Environment
High mountain glaciers that are melting in the Tibetan plateau in Asia contain greenhouse gases and should be counted in
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 14, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Nature is in decline; the planet has lost a tremendous amount of biodiversity over the past few years due to human actio
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found evidence of two mergers of black holes and their companion neutron stars about 900 million light-
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 09, 2021
Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope has captured evidence of mysterious free-floating planets, or planets that are alone in deep
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 04, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The heat wave that has been devastating communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States may
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 03, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have developed and successfully carried out a CRISPR-Cas9 p
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 03, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers led by the University of Maryland have found that the sun's magnetic field is the reason behind the larg
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 30, 2021
Space & Astronomy
In this NASA image from Bill Ingalls, a meteor can be seen in the sky, one far less destructive than the asteroid that c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the anthropogenic
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 21, 2021
Space & Astronomy
An international team led by researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland and the National Centre of Competenc
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 16, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Earth and the planets in the solar system sit within the heliosphere, a giant bubble formed by the charged particles, li
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 16, 2021
Microbiology
There may be a trillion species of microbes on the planet, so clearly there's still a lot we don't know about these micr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 15, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
We live in an age of information and data, and more is being generated every day. It's estimated that there are about te
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan have found that heat generated by the impact of small astronomical bodies coul
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 04, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Two new studies suggest that Earth’s most recent ice age, which occurred approximately 20,000 years ago, was not q
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 03, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the journal Science reports on the discovery of a massive shark die-off - nearly 19 million ye
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 02, 2021
Earth & The Environment
As hard as it is to imagine, the rolling dunes that we picture now when we think of the Sahara used to be quite differen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Mars has a thin atmosphere without much humidity, making cloudy days rare. But clouds can be found sometimes near the Ma
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 29, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have that there was four times more soot in the pre-industrial Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere than pre
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 21, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Australian National University have discovered the first ever extraterrestrial radioactive isoto
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon