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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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NOV 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 04, 2016Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Curiosity rover rolls about the red planet’s surface always looking for things out of the ordinary th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
The New Horizons spacecraft NASA launched over a decade ago set out with a mission to fly past Pluto, and that it did in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Earth & The Environment
South of New Zealand and deep in the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean, the 1.9 million square-mile Ross Sea is sometimes ca ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 31, 2016Earth & The Environment
Scientists are now looking into whether or not a second massive asteroid or comet impact may have struck the Earth just ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 31, 2016Space & Astronomy
A trio of astronauts from the International Space Station have landed back on Earth safely this past weekend after a 115 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Certainly one of the things we will need to get very good at if we’re ever to send humans to Mars to live and stud ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2016Videos
Astronomers are still stumped because of the odd tilt that our Solar System has. We can't seem to find any logical expla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
While NASA's Juno probe tries its luck at investigating Jupiter, another probe known as Cassini is investigating the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Last week, the European Space Agency had to face-palm after their Trace Gas Orbiter ejected the Schiaparelli Mars lander ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 24, 2016Earth & The Environment
Just over a week ago TripAdvisor, and its booking service Viator, announced that it will no longer be selling tickets to ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 23, 2016Videos
Gary King, PhD, Professor of Microbial Biology, Louisiana State University gives a lecture on global climate change and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA has something to be proud about in terms of its 1 Billion-dollar Juno spacecraft, which is currently observing the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
Like NASA, the European Space Agency is trying their best to study Mars. They had hoped to use the ExoMars mission, whic ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
Without a doubt it’s of high interest to land human beings on the red planet for the first time. Space agencies ar ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2016Earth & The Environment
Saturday in Kigali. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Almost like Sundays at Tiffany’s. Well, the deal that ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
There hasn’t been a serious space race since the Cold War, but now things are starting to heat up again. This time ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Opportunity Rover is still rolling around on the red planet and being used to the study the surface today, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The mysterious world from the nearby system Proxima Centauri that we know as Proxima b was recently announced to be very ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A Saturn-like exoplanet in another system is currently making astronomers based out of both Japan and the Netherlands sc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Curiosity rover rolls about the red planet’s surface always looking for things out of the ordinary th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The New Horizons spacecraft NASA launched over a decade ago set out with a mission to fly past Pluto, and that it did in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
South of New Zealand and deep in the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean, the 1.9 million square-mile Ross Sea is sometimes ca
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 31, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Scientists are now looking into whether or not a second massive asteroid or comet impact may have struck the Earth just
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A trio of astronauts from the International Space Station have landed back on Earth safely this past weekend after a 115
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earth seems to have an unusually high abundance of precious metal elements, such as gold and platinum, when compared to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While observing a distant binary star system known as IRS 43 with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Certainly one of the things we will need to get very good at if we’re ever to send humans to Mars to live and stud
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While the Juno probe is investigating the conditions surrounding the neighborhood of Jupiter and the Cassini probe is sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2016
Videos
Astronomers are still stumped because of the odd tilt that our Solar System has. We can't seem to find any logical expla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While NASA's Juno probe tries its luck at investigating Jupiter, another probe known as Cassini is investigating the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Last week, the European Space Agency had to face-palm after their Trace Gas Orbiter ejected the Schiaparelli Mars lander
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Just over a week ago TripAdvisor, and its booking service Viator, announced that it will no longer be selling tickets to
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 23, 2016
Videos
Gary King, PhD, Professor of Microbial Biology, Louisiana State University gives a lecture on global climate change and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA has something to be proud about in terms of its 1 Billion-dollar Juno spacecraft, which is currently observing the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Like NASA, the European Space Agency is trying their best to study Mars. They had hoped to use the ExoMars mission, whic
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Pluto was undoubtedly the biggest part of NASA’s New Horizons mission last year, when the probe achieved its succe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Without a doubt it’s of high interest to land human beings on the red planet for the first time. Space agencies ar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Saturday in Kigali. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Almost like Sundays at Tiffany’s. Well, the deal that
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There hasn’t been a serious space race since the Cold War, but now things are starting to heat up again. This time
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Opportunity Rover is still rolling around on the red planet and being used to the study the surface today,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The mysterious world from the nearby system Proxima Centauri that we know as Proxima b was recently announced to be very
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard