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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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FEB 01, 2021Chemistry & Physics
A study published in the journal Science Advances reports new measurements from NASA's Van Allen Probes spacecraft. ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 29, 2021Space & Astronomy
The part of the universe that we can see, which includes our planet and stars, makes up only around a quarter of the mas ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have discovered a ten billion-year-old planetary system. While two of its planets are gaseous, as would be e ...Written By: Annie LennonJAN 23, 2021Earth & The Environment
New research conducted by scientists from Rice University aims to investigate places on Mars that harbor similar geologi ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 22, 2021Earth & The Environment
We’ve heard it before: the lands occupied and stewarded by Indigenous peoples are crucial biodiversity hotspots. N ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 21, 2021Chemistry & Physics
For decades, economists and chemists alike have been dreaming of a hydrogen economy, where hydrogen fuels our global pow ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 20, 2021Space & Astronomy
In 2017, a giant exoplanet called WASP-107b was discovered orbiting a star called WASP-107, which is around 212 light ye ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 19, 2021Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a major problem, from the great Pacifici Garbage Patch to the micro plastics that have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2021Microbiology
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about rising carbon dioxide levels in our planet's atmosphere, and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 17, 2021Space & Astronomy
Having just one star in our solar system makes us an outlier in our galaxy. However, while most solar systems in the Mil ...Written By: Annie LennonJAN 13, 2021Space & Astronomy
For some time now, we have known of the 'Goldilocks zone'- a distance from the sun that leads to planets neither ...Written By: Annie LennonJAN 10, 2021Earth & The Environment
Is there a connection between the extinction of species and that of human languages? Ecologists have long recognized a g ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 10, 2021Microbiology
People, animals, and even plants are known to have biological clocks, and new work has revealed that free-living bacteri ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 05, 2021Microbiology
In order to study bacteria, it has to be grown in the lab. That’s no problem for many common strains of bacteria t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 05, 2021Space & Astronomy
As scientists are learning more about microbes existing in the higher echelons of the Earth's atmosphere, they are b ...Written By: Annie LennonJAN 04, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found that there were likely many intelligent alien civilizations sprawled across our galaxy billions o ...Written By: Annie LennonDEC 29, 2020Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2020Earth & The Environment
Scientists from Northwestern have published new findings on the factors that triggered the oceanic anoxic event (OA ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 19, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Despite its resemblance to Earth, Mars, our planetary neighbor, is not exactly a friendly environment for human explorer ...Written By: Daniel DuanDEC 18, 2020Microbiology
Research has shown that air pollution & smoke can have serious detrimental health effects. Now scientists have revealed ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2020Earth & The Environment
A study published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment comments on the reasons why Earth ha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 12, 2020Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge ...Written By: Annie LennonDEC 11, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Physicists believe that we exist in an expanding universe. But what does that mean? Do our habitats, bodies, and atoms & ...Written By: Daniel DuanDEC 07, 2020Microbiology
There are some very extreme environments on our planet, and it seems that microbes have been able to colonize many of th ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
A study published in the journal Science Advances reports new measurements from NASA's Van Allen Probes spacecraft.
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 29, 2021
Space & Astronomy
The part of the universe that we can see, which includes our planet and stars, makes up only around a quarter of the mas
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have discovered a ten billion-year-old planetary system. While two of its planets are gaseous, as would be e
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 23, 2021
Earth & The Environment
New research conducted by scientists from Rice University aims to investigate places on Mars that harbor similar geologi
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 22, 2021
Earth & The Environment
We’ve heard it before: the lands occupied and stewarded by Indigenous peoples are crucial biodiversity hotspots. N
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 21, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
For decades, economists and chemists alike have been dreaming of a hydrogen economy, where hydrogen fuels our global pow
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 20, 2021
Space & Astronomy
In 2017, a giant exoplanet called WASP-107b was discovered orbiting a star called WASP-107, which is around 212 light ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 19, 2021
Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a major problem, from the great Pacifici Garbage Patch to the micro plastics that have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2021
Microbiology
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about rising carbon dioxide levels in our planet's atmosphere, and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Having just one star in our solar system makes us an outlier in our galaxy. However, while most solar systems in the Mil
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 13, 2021
Space & Astronomy
For some time now, we have known of the 'Goldilocks zone'- a distance from the sun that leads to planets neither
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 10, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Is there a connection between the extinction of species and that of human languages? Ecologists have long recognized a g
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 10, 2021
Microbiology
People, animals, and even plants are known to have biological clocks, and new work has revealed that free-living bacteri
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2021
Microbiology
In order to study bacteria, it has to be grown in the lab. That’s no problem for many common strains of bacteria t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2021
Space & Astronomy
As scientists are learning more about microbes existing in the higher echelons of the Earth's atmosphere, they are b
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 04, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found that there were likely many intelligent alien civilizations sprawled across our galaxy billions o
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
DEC 29, 2020
Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Scientists from Northwestern have published new findings on the factors that triggered the oceanic anoxic event (OA
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 19, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Despite its resemblance to Earth, Mars, our planetary neighbor, is not exactly a friendly environment for human explorer
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
DEC 18, 2020
Microbiology
Research has shown that air pollution & smoke can have serious detrimental health effects. Now scientists have revealed
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A study published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment comments on the reasons why Earth ha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 12, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
DEC 11, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Physicists believe that we exist in an expanding universe. But what does that mean? Do our habitats, bodies, and atoms &
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
DEC 07, 2020
Microbiology
There are some very extreme environments on our planet, and it seems that microbes have been able to colonize many of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch