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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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OCT 30, 2017Videos
Have you ever thought about what might happen if you or an astronaut accidentally drifted into Saturn's atmosphere? In t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 24, 2017Chemistry & Physics
So you are sitting in front your computer and reading this article, it pretty much proves that the universe does exist. ...Written By: Daniel DuanOCT 23, 2017Earth & The Environment
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Spiders are incredibly diverse, and there are tons of them. It's estimated that 90,000 species exist on every continent ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2017Videos
Dinosaurs walked the Earth millions of years ago, but when a massive asteroid smacked into our planet, it wiped them all ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2017Space & Astronomy
Space rocks are a hot commodity lately; namely asteroids. Not only have several of these skimmed past the Earth within u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2017Earth & The Environment
Over ten years ago, on an otherwise normal day in May of 2006, the world saw the largest eruption of mud ever known to h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 18, 2017Videos
It's crazy to think about, but the Milky Way galaxy is insignificantly-small compared to the rest of the universe. What' ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 17, 2017Space & Astronomy
Earthlings have experienced quite a few close calls from space rocks in the recent past, but now they have something els ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
Mars is one of our closest planetary neighbors, and yet we still have so much to learn about it. One of the questions th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Videos
SpaceX his hell-bent on sending humans to Mars, but so is one of the commercial space company's most significant competi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
Although the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will become Hubble’s successor, that’s not to say that it wil ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Videos
SpaceX quickly became popular because of their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely blasts off from the launch pad to send e ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola ...Written By: Daniel DuanSEP 27, 2017Infographics
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) each keep track of the c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Jupiter and many of its moons are of scientific interest to astronomers because they could be full of undiscovered surpr ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2017
Videos
Have you ever thought about what might happen if you or an astronaut accidentally drifted into Saturn's atmosphere? In t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
So you are sitting in front your computer and reading this article, it pretty much proves that the universe does exist.
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 23, 2017
Earth & The Environment
As you might imagine, measuring glaciers is difficult – those hulking masses of ice don’t easily fit on a ya
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 22, 2017
Videos
Spiders are incredibly diverse, and there are tons of them. It's estimated that 90,000 species exist on every continent
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2017
Videos
Dinosaurs walked the Earth millions of years ago, but when a massive asteroid smacked into our planet, it wiped them all
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Space rocks are a hot commodity lately; namely asteroids. Not only have several of these skimmed past the Earth within u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Over ten years ago, on an otherwise normal day in May of 2006, the world saw the largest eruption of mud ever known to h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 18, 2017
Videos
It's crazy to think about, but the Milky Way galaxy is insignificantly-small compared to the rest of the universe. What'
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 17, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Earthlings have experienced quite a few close calls from space rocks in the recent past, but now they have something els
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Mars is one of our closest planetary neighbors, and yet we still have so much to learn about it. One of the questions th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Videos
SpaceX his hell-bent on sending humans to Mars, but so is one of the commercial space company's most significant competi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Although the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will become Hubble’s successor, that’s not to say that it wil
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Videos
SpaceX quickly became popular because of their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely blasts off from the launch pad to send e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 27, 2017
Infographics
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) each keep track of the c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter and many of its moons are of scientific interest to astronomers because they could be full of undiscovered surpr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard