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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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OCT 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Over the last few months, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been beaming information back to Earth from the histo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
It was only a few days ago that NASA made a major announcement revealing the existence of flowing water on some parts of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2015Space & Astronomy
Researchers are saying that a discovery of stains from summertime flows down cliffs and crater walls increases the chanc ...SEP 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
In July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, and scientists grasped at the opportunity to take some hi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 25, 2015Videos
The high definition photos that are coming back from the New Horizons probe are showing incredible detail of Pluto. Hill ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 24, 2015Space & Astronomy
Yesterday’s Part I of this article explained how, according to NASA scientists, Martian dust storms don’t pr ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 23, 2015Space & Astronomy
In many science fiction films over the past few decades that deal with humans on Mars, such as “Red Planet”, ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 22, 2015Videos
NASA has been slowly receiving high quality photographs of the Pluto flyby mission from the New Horizons spacecraft as i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
It was just back in July that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto with the mission of grabbing as detai ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2015Videos
Billionaire Elon Musk does a lot. It seems like he never sits still. He owns a car company at the cutting edge of techno ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been lurking around the planet Saturn and collecting data relating to the planet&rsq ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently shared a really interesting panoramic photograph of Mars, taken by the Mars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 13, 2015Space & Astronomy
You’ve probably heard of SETI, (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). It is, as its name implies, a sear ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
In mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet Pluto and captured high detail photographs ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is keeping its eye on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the middle of the Asteroid Belt in between t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft performed its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in July and captured the wor ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 04, 2015Plants & Animals
In space exploration of new planets, researchers use advanced rovers to get data and photos. These specially equipped ve ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 02, 2015Space & Astronomy
Just last month, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back a pretty clear picture of one of Saturn’s moons known a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2015Health & Medicine
A variant of an opiate drug, fentanyl, is being smuggled into the United States, sold to heroin dealers, and used to mak ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 28, 2015Space & Astronomy
You probably remember mid-last month when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took record-breaking high quality photogr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA is closely watching the dwarf planet of Ceres, which is the largest object in the asteroid belt between the planets ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Over the last few months, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been beaming information back to Earth from the histo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It was only a few days ago that NASA made a major announcement revealing the existence of flowing water on some parts of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Researchers are saying that a discovery of stains from summertime flows down cliffs and crater walls increases the chanc
...
SEP 25, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, and scientists grasped at the opportunity to take some hi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2015
Videos
The high definition photos that are coming back from the New Horizons probe are showing incredible detail of Pluto. Hill
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 24, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Yesterday’s Part I of this article explained how, according to NASA scientists, Martian dust storms don’t pr
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 23, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In many science fiction films over the past few decades that deal with humans on Mars, such as “Red Planet”,
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 22, 2015
Videos
NASA has been slowly receiving high quality photographs of the Pluto flyby mission from the New Horizons spacecraft as i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2015
Space & Astronomy
When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It was just back in July that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto with the mission of grabbing as detai
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2015
Videos
Billionaire Elon Musk does a lot. It seems like he never sits still. He owns a car company at the cutting edge of techno
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been lurking around the planet Saturn and collecting data relating to the planet&rsq
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently shared a really interesting panoramic photograph of Mars, taken by the Mars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2015
Space & Astronomy
You’ve probably heard of SETI, (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). It is, as its name implies, a sear
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet Pluto and captured high detail photographs
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is keeping its eye on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the middle of the Asteroid Belt in between t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft performed its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in July and captured the wor
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 07, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 04, 2015
Plants & Animals
In space exploration of new planets, researchers use advanced rovers to get data and photos. These specially equipped ve
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 02, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Just last month, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back a pretty clear picture of one of Saturn’s moons known a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2015
Health & Medicine
A variant of an opiate drug, fentanyl, is being smuggled into the United States, sold to heroin dealers, and used to mak
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 28, 2015
Space & Astronomy
You probably remember mid-last month when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took record-breaking high quality photogr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA is closely watching the dwarf planet of Ceres, which is the largest object in the asteroid belt between the planets
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard