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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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MAR 29, 2017Videos
On Earth, we have a very comfortable atmosphere that makes life possible, but one other thing our atmosphere does for us ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
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Where did dinosaurs actually come from? While a myriad of theories remain, only one answer could ever possibly be correc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 22, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been roaming the red planet’s seemingly lifeless surface for almost four-and-a-ha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 20, 2017Videos
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Finding the hottest place on Earth may seem like a task as easy as comparing weather charts, but actually the most accur ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 14, 2017Plants & Animals
Fossils are relics left behind by time; they're alone and forgotten in places where even mother nature doesn’t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 14, 2017Earth & The Environment
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"Hahai no ka ua i ka ulula'au" is a Hawaiian saying which means "The rains follows after the forest." This refers the ph ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 29, 2017
Videos
On Earth, we have a very comfortable atmosphere that makes life possible, but one other thing our atmosphere does for us
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
As we inch closer to the launch date of the ExoMars 2020 rover, experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) are now con
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 28, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The Kamchatka Peninsula is part of Russia’s “Land of Fire and Ice” region, meaning that it is chock fu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 27, 2017
Videos
Remember back in fourth grade when your mind was blown that the continents and oceans are all actually moving, very slow
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It would seem that all this hubbub about nanosatellites isn’t as out of reach as originally thought. Scientists ar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
When you look at Mars today, you probably have a hard time believing that the planet ever had any traces of water oceans
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 24, 2017
Videos
In pushing the boundaries of space exploration and potentially colonization, we've heard extensively about Mars. But hav
...
MAR 23, 2017
Earth & The Environment
In 2010 scientists drilled 1,500 feet into the seabed of the Dead Sea to retrieve cores of deposits that would give them
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
Where did dinosaurs actually come from? While a myriad of theories remain, only one answer could ever possibly be correc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 22, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been roaming the red planet’s seemingly lifeless surface for almost four-and-a-ha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 20, 2017
Videos
In perhaps one of the most inspiring climate justice stories, comes a young boy named Felix Finkbeiner, the founder of t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 20, 2017
Videos
Perhaps you have never thought about where all a whale's poop goes. Well, as soon as you think about it, you've got your
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
There are a handful of animal species that have involuntarily went extinct over the decades, and a truckload of others r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
There is undoubtedly a problem with the way things are going on our planet. The human species continues to grow and spre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Almost three decades ago, astronomers were looking at a binary star system known as 47 Tuc X9, which resides around 14,8
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2017
Videos
The sun dying is one of those ideas that seems so improbable that it's not even worth thinking about. But fast forwardin
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 17, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Trappist-1 system has a lot of scientists very excited about the future of space exploration because it was recently
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 15, 2017
Videos
Ever know that volcanoes have a scale for how destructive they can be? It's called the Volcanic Explosivity Index and me
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 15, 2017
Videos
Finding the hottest place on Earth may seem like a task as easy as comparing weather charts, but actually the most accur
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
Fossils are relics left behind by time; they're alone and forgotten in places where even mother nature doesn’t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 14, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright p
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 14, 2017
Videos
Everyone has seen videos of the astronauts on board the International Space Station floating around, watching their food
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 13, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
While there is a lot of skepticism surrounding genetically modified foods, they have helped solve serious problems in ag
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2017
Videos
"Hahai no ka ua i ka ulula'au" is a Hawaiian saying which means "The rains follows after the forest." This refers the ph
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan