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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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SEP 14, 2016Earth & The Environment
Poles apart. Night and day. Those are the easiest ways to sum up where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on environ ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2016Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Triathletes are some of the fittest people on the planet. For the Summer Olympics in Rio, Gwen Jorgensen became the firs ...SEP 06, 2016Videos
Environmental experts have been warning people for decades about climate change and global warming. The loss of so much ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 05, 2016Plants & Animals
A myriad of animal species around the world are struggling to stay alive, and now you can add Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 05, 2016Videos
How many times a day do you Google something? Ten? Twenty? More? Imagine if all of that search power was going to good u ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
Juno is out there in space studying the atmosphere and magnetic field of Jupiter, among other things, so we can get a be ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2016Space & Astronomy
While some scientists are peering out into the great beyond looking for a supposed Planet Nine, others have recently fou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2016Earth & The Environment
Six scientists spent 365 days in a geodesic dome set in a Mars-like environment 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea leve ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
When it comes to meteorites hitting the Earth, it’s a safe bet that they could have come from nearly anywhere. Out ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the major new missions going on in our Solar System right now is Juno. It reached its destination at Jupiter in J ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2016Microbiology
Diatoms have always been one of my favorite protists. There’s something so strange, almost alien, about them. Diat ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiraling disk of dust, stars, and other rubble that has formed together over billions of year ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
There has been a long-standing belief that asteroids, comets, and other kinds of space rocks might all actually be lefto ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
A very interesting binary star system subbed AR Scorpii some 380 light years away from our planet contains both a red dw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2016Microbiology
Honey bee viruses. It’s safe to say that’s the first time I’ve strung those three words together. Hone ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 18, 2016Plants & Animals
What happened to the wooly mammoth that caused the species to go extinct? Scientists believe that a lack of water ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s on the to-do list of space agencies and major commercial space companies to try and put mankind on Mars somet ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 17, 2016Plants & Animals
Dinosaurs may not walk the Earth anymore, but they’ve left behind several clues to their existence millions of yea ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Poles apart. Night and day. Those are the easiest ways to sum up where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on environ
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in our universe never ends. Scientists from SETI search far and wide to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Triathletes are some of the fittest people on the planet. For the Summer Olympics in Rio, Gwen Jorgensen became the firs
...
SEP 06, 2016
Videos
Environmental experts have been warning people for decades about climate change and global warming. The loss of so much
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 05, 2016
Plants & Animals
A myriad of animal species around the world are struggling to stay alive, and now you can add Eastern Gorillas (Gorilla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 05, 2016
Videos
How many times a day do you Google something? Ten? Twenty? More? Imagine if all of that search power was going to good u
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have had their eyes on an exoplanet dubbed Gj 1132b that was discovered last year and seems to resemble Venus
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Juno is out there in space studying the atmosphere and magnetic field of Jupiter, among other things, so we can get a be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While some scientists are peering out into the great beyond looking for a supposed Planet Nine, others have recently fou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Six scientists spent 365 days in a geodesic dome set in a Mars-like environment 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea leve
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When it comes to meteorites hitting the Earth, it’s a safe bet that they could have come from nearly anywhere. Out
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are in awe after having discovered a very strange trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is orbiting the Sun in a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the major new missions going on in our Solar System right now is Juno. It reached its destination at Jupiter in J
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2016
Microbiology
Diatoms have always been one of my favorite protists. There’s something so strange, almost alien, about them. Diat
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiraling disk of dust, stars, and other rubble that has formed together over billions of year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There has been a long-standing belief that asteroids, comets, and other kinds of space rocks might all actually be lefto
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A very interesting binary star system subbed AR Scorpii some 380 light years away from our planet contains both a red dw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2016
Microbiology
Honey bee viruses. It’s safe to say that’s the first time I’ve strung those three words together. Hone
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 18, 2016
Plants & Animals
What happened to the wooly mammoth that caused the species to go extinct? Scientists believe that a lack of water
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s on the to-do list of space agencies and major commercial space companies to try and put mankind on Mars somet
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
Dinosaurs may not walk the Earth anymore, but they’ve left behind several clues to their existence millions of yea
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard