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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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JUL 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
Social media lit up in the middle of the week after sightings of what appeared to be a very colorful shower of glowing o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced this week that it has made its first major rocket burn maneuver for the Ex ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarfs are essentially stars that fail to spark the energy needed to produce nuclear fusion. Instead of being brig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
Somewhere on the red planet we know as Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover is driving around and studying the planet up c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 26, 2016Videos
SpaceX is an American commercial space company that has contracts with NASA to produce rockets capable of delivering pay ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 21, 2016Videos
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) picked up a large, gaping black ravine in the Sun's surface not that long ago, a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Venus is a mysterious planet that many have said is similar to Earth in many ways, but different in so many others. Some ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 21, 2016Videos
NASA has shared a new video on YouTube this week of what appears to be a time lapse of the Earth over a span of one year ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
The universe is a rather interesting place. There are a bunch of stars, planets, random rocks, dust, and other mysteriou ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Stars all around the universe appear in different colors. The hottest of the hot are white, followed by blue, and somewh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA has been exploring the unknown terrains of the red planet with robotic rovers for almost two decades. The first to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists always have their eyes in the skies. Although Neptune is the single furthest planet in our Solar System, Plut ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Juno has been in orbit around Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, for a little over a week following a suc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2016Videos
Humans take pride in many traits. We credit our bigger brain with the ability to adapt and successfully colonize nearly ...JUL 12, 2016Videos
Jupiter is an impressive planet. There are a lot of mysteries about it that remain unsolved, and we have yet to really s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 11, 2016Technology
Solar Impulse 2 is an aeroplane that is designed to fly with nothing more than energy converted from light via the Sun. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that we, as a civilization, eventually want to have a footprint on multiple planets in our solar s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 08, 2016Earth & The Environment
Honduras is the world’s most dangerous country for environmentalists. According to Global Witness, a London-based ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
Life is a huge question in our universe. It can be difficult to grasp exactly how life started, and how it originated he ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA apparently had some technical difficulties with the Mars Curiosity Rover over the 4th of July weekend. The debacle ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
In the middle of June, three astronauts, including British astronaut Tim Peake, came back home from the International Sp ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
Following all the hype has that led up to Juno’s arrival at Jupiter, NASA has announced a successful orbit inserti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 05, 2016Videos
The largest publicly traded coal company in the United States, Peabody Energy, has funded over two dozen organizations a ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Social media lit up in the middle of the week after sightings of what appeared to be a very colorful shower of glowing o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced this week that it has made its first major rocket burn maneuver for the Ex
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarfs are essentially stars that fail to spark the energy needed to produce nuclear fusion. Instead of being brig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Somewhere on the red planet we know as Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover is driving around and studying the planet up c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 26, 2016
Videos
SpaceX is an American commercial space company that has contracts with NASA to produce rockets capable of delivering pay
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 21, 2016
Videos
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) picked up a large, gaping black ravine in the Sun's surface not that long ago, a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Venus is a mysterious planet that many have said is similar to Earth in many ways, but different in so many others. Some
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 21, 2016
Videos
NASA has shared a new video on YouTube this week of what appears to be a time lapse of the Earth over a span of one year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The universe is a rather interesting place. There are a bunch of stars, planets, random rocks, dust, and other mysteriou
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Stars all around the universe appear in different colors. The hottest of the hot are white, followed by blue, and somewh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA has been exploring the unknown terrains of the red planet with robotic rovers for almost two decades. The first to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists always have their eyes in the skies. Although Neptune is the single furthest planet in our Solar System, Plut
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Juno has been in orbit around Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, for a little over a week following a suc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2016
Videos
Humans take pride in many traits. We credit our bigger brain with the ability to adapt and successfully colonize nearly
...
JUL 12, 2016
Videos
Jupiter is an impressive planet. There are a lot of mysteries about it that remain unsolved, and we have yet to really s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 11, 2016
Technology
Solar Impulse 2 is an aeroplane that is designed to fly with nothing more than energy converted from light via the Sun.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that we, as a civilization, eventually want to have a footprint on multiple planets in our solar s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 08, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Honduras is the world’s most dangerous country for environmentalists. According to Global Witness, a London-based
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Life is a huge question in our universe. It can be difficult to grasp exactly how life started, and how it originated he
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA apparently had some technical difficulties with the Mars Curiosity Rover over the 4th of July weekend. The debacle
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In the middle of June, three astronauts, including British astronaut Tim Peake, came back home from the International Sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Following all the hype has that led up to Juno’s arrival at Jupiter, NASA has announced a successful orbit inserti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 05, 2016
Videos
The largest publicly traded coal company in the United States, Peabody Energy, has funded over two dozen organizations a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim