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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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FEB 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
On March 5th, we can expect yet another close encounter with an asteroid. It will be a relatively small one, but asteroi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 04, 2016Earth & The Environment
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To answer the question right off the bat - yes, it's certainly possible, but there hasn't been any photographic evidence ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
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The United Nations has declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. This is an ancient term for foods we often refer ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 04, 2016Plants & Animals
The idea that trees are capable of cooling the air around us isn’t new, but there isn’t really enough resear ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 02, 2016Videos
Space exploration in 2015 was far from empty-handed. We learned a lot about various plants in our solar system last year ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 28, 2015Earth & The Environment
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FEB 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
On March 5th, we can expect yet another close encounter with an asteroid. It will be a relatively small one, but asteroi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 04, 2016
Earth & The Environment
When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in Earth’s atmosphere that cause imperceptible changes in
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 02, 2016
Technology
Many forms of generating power involve burning fossil fuels, or other actions that can harm the Earth’s natural en
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Because Mars is a big area of interest right now, especially with NASA and SpaceX wanting to send people to the red plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In October of last year, NASA expressed its interest in sending mankind to Mars to live there permanently, giving them t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 29, 2016
Microbiology
University of British Columbia researchers are taking the fight to antibiotic resistant bacteria - with mud. Well, techn
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 28, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Like many of history’s best secrets, Solar Roadways started in a garage. Well, really it started in a preschool, w
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 25, 2016
Videos
To answer the question right off the bat - yes, it's certainly possible, but there hasn't been any photographic evidence
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Does a ninth planet exist in our solar system after Pluto, the dward planet we just recently successfully flew past and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
For the next month, sky gazers will get the opportunity see a rare event in the sky just before the crack of dawn each m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA broke a record this week when its Juno spacecraft, launched in 2011 to get itself into orbit around Jupiter and stu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have scientists just found the missing gravity waves that we’ve been searching for for more than a century since E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
All multi-cellular life may be the result of a genetic accident that happened more than 600-million years ago, according
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 11, 2016
Videos
Our atmosphere has a lot of gas in it - nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide, but it hasn't always had these gass
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is on a mission to protect the Earth from future dangers of asteroid and comet impacts, and as a part of this movem
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 10, 2016
Videos
Between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system, there is a massive ring of asteroids that orbit the Sun. These make up wha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that you get to see two galaxies collide somewhere in the middle of the universe. It’s a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 05, 2016
Videos
The United Nations has declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. This is an ancient term for foods we often refer
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 04, 2016
Plants & Animals
The idea that trees are capable of cooling the air around us isn’t new, but there isn’t really enough resear
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 02, 2016
Videos
Space exploration in 2015 was far from empty-handed. We learned a lot about various plants in our solar system last year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
It took 100 million years for oxygen levels in the oceans and atmosphere to increase to the level that allowed the explo
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 28, 2015
Videos
It's a strange thing to think about, because it's been a part of our lives for as long as we can remember, but can you i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 26, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency recently sent its first astronaut to the International Space Station, Tim Peake, along with NA
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 24, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s plans to send a space vehicle to Mars for additional exploration of the red planet’s geology will lik
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard