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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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MAY 17, 2021Earth & The Environment
Hydrological dams have been portrayed as green, renewable energy capable of aiding in the transition away from fossil fu ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 16, 2021Space & Astronomy
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Researchers from Spain have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting the star, GJ-740, a red dwarf star located 36 light ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 21, 2021Chemistry & Physics
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MAY 17, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Hydrological dams have been portrayed as green, renewable energy capable of aiding in the transition away from fossil fu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 16, 2021
Space & Astronomy
It may get dark at night, but there's still light in the sky in even the darkest places. This low glow comes from natura
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 13, 2021
Microbiology
What can we learn from a specimen of ancient poo? A lot, it turns out. Scientists have now reported their findings from
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
How do sharks make transatlantic journeys without losing their way? New research published this week in Current Biology
...
Written By:
Anne Medina
MAY 09, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA sent the Perseverance rover to Mars loaded with cutting edge technology, one piece of which is a robotic helicopter
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 07, 2021
Space & Astronomy
While experts agree that most life on Earth would not be able to survive on Mars, NASA researchers have previously sugge
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 07, 2021
Microbiology
There's water all over the world, but only a bit of it - 0.3% - is useful to us, making wastewater treatment an essentia
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 04, 2021
Space & Astronomy
In the next few days, part of a rocket that put China's new space station into orbit will fall back to Earth in an uncon
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 04, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Many of us have wondered how fish like sole and flounder ended up with two eyes on one side of their heads, including sc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 02, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Although Venus is our planet’s closest neighbour, its fundamental properties have remained largely unknown. Now th
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 26, 2021
Microbiology
Scientists are noting that rock-dissolving microbes in the ocean may be contributing to climate change and should be tak
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 21, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Spain have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting the star, GJ-740, a red dwarf star located 36 light
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 21, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
A new pulsar has been discovered with images from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, a low-frequency radio t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Arizona State University have suggested that two giant blobs of rock cupping the Earth's core are l
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 15, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a high-detail map to track phytoplankton in the ocean
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 13, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Agriculturalists across Europe are tense with worry for their crops. After a temptingly warm weather week at the end of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 13, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
Does the presence of oxygen mean the existence of life? That’s a question that scientists have been debating over
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 12, 2021
Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has found that each year, 5,200 tons of dust falls from space to Earth. This far out
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 12, 2021
Earth & The Environment
An investigation led by Stockholm University Assistant Professor Christian Stranne and published in Communications Earth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 08, 2021
Space & Astronomy
You may know that the human body is made up of elements that almost all originated in stars, and many of those elements
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 05, 2021
Earth & The Environment
The debate over geoengineering - the idea that we could or should use technology to engineer solutions to cool down the
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 03, 2021
Space & Astronomy
NASA's Perseverance rover has found a strange, green rock on the surface of Mars that is having its science team'
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Until now, astronomers had detected X-rays from every planet in our solar system apart from the two Ice Giants: Uranus a
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 31, 2021
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters reports an alarming amount of light
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan