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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 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 BouchardAUG 25, 2015Videos
The Earth is made up of about two-thirds water, and scientists have thrown around ideas for years about where all of thi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 24, 2015Videos
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Astronomy has been very important to humans for thousands of years. Many ancient civilizations would look to the stars a ...AUG 21, 2015Space & Astronomy
Yesterday's Part II of this article finished explaining how rogue planets are formed, their relationship to brown dw ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 20, 2015Space & Astronomy
In yesterday’s Part I of this article I explained how there are potentially huge numbers of planets drifting throu ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 20, 2015Videos
Scientists continue to be baffled by what may have been the recipe for life here on Earth. There are tons of theories; b ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has been on the red planet for three Earth years, collecting information and giving sc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
If someone asked you to list all the things that make a planet a planet, (don’t get me started about Pluto) anyway ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAUG 18, 2015Videos
Water is all around us; it makes up almost two-thirds of the planet's mass, but one interesting about water is what it c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
Despite the fact that our solar system is large, and full of planets, it’s hard to wrap our minds around the fact ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 12, 2015Space & Astronomy
The crew of the International Space station is well into their yearlong mission and lots of experiments are being done e ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
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
AUG 25, 2015
Videos
The Earth is made up of about two-thirds water, and scientists have thrown around ideas for years about where all of thi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 24, 2015
Videos
Although we live on Earth and often take its resources for granted, it still continues to baffle scientists that Earth i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2015
Infographics
Astronomy has been very important to humans for thousands of years. Many ancient civilizations would look to the stars a
...
AUG 21, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Yesterday's Part II of this article finished explaining how rogue planets are formed, their relationship to brown dw
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In yesterday’s Part I of this article I explained how there are potentially huge numbers of planets drifting throu
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 20, 2015
Videos
Scientists continue to be baffled by what may have been the recipe for life here on Earth. There are tons of theories; b
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has been on the red planet for three Earth years, collecting information and giving sc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If someone asked you to list all the things that make a planet a planet, (don’t get me started about Pluto) anyway
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 18, 2015
Videos
Water is all around us; it makes up almost two-thirds of the planet's mass, but one interesting about water is what it c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Despite the fact that our solar system is large, and full of planets, it’s hard to wrap our minds around the fact
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 12, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The crew of the International Space station is well into their yearlong mission and lots of experiments are being done e
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim