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Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical bodies that orbit it, bound by its own gravitational pull. The Solar System was thought to have formed 4.6 billion years ago. The Sun makes up the vast majority of the Solar System's mass.
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JUL 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun along with all of the planets. Many of them are relatively close to the Su ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Thanks to the New Horizons probe's Tuesday flyby, there are, for the first time in history, some really good images of P ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 15, 2015Videos
It's not every single day that we send a spacecraft all the way to Pluto, which is more than 3 billion miles away from E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2015Earth & The Environment
For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A protot ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 11, 2015Technology
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that is powered by just four lithium ion batteries and has made several long f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 01, 2015Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 29, 2015Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
One of the cooler phenomena that occur in outer space are black holes, and famous physicist Stephen Hawking would agree. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2015Space & Astronomy
Ever since the late 1990s, when NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter gave scientists their first really good images of Jupi ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 12, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to perform its flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto next month, but you can bet NASA is ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
Very often, when referring to some simple theory or basic explanation of something, we hear "Well, it's not rocket scien ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
Space has been called the final frontier and nations all over the world have gone on missions to faraway galaxies, lande ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 20, 2015Earth & The Environment
Okay ladies and gentlemen, you may not be prepared for this. You may have never heard these words in the same sentence b ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 18, 2015Space & Astronomy
It may have been stripped of its status as a full-fledged planet, but that doesn't mean scientists have lost interest in ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
Pluto, the dwarf planet right after Neptune in our Solar System, has been getting a lot of hype recently from NASA after ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's Curiosity Rover has been exploring the lands of Mars for over two-and-a-half years. Also known as the ‘Red Planet ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
You know how every once in a while, in a presidential speech, or some statement from NASA, or a speech by someone in Con ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 13, 2015Space & Astronomy
Sailing through space. Literally sailing on the solar wind, the photons emitted by the Sun. The idea was first introduce ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Research by a team of astronomers from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England suggests that asteroids and comets ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 04, 2015Earth & The Environment
So, you want to put solar panels on your house. Great. You'll be generating clean electricity. You won't have to worry a ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAPR 29, 2015Space & Astronomy
In case you didn't know, or didn't remember, NASA has a probe orbiting Mercury called Messenger. If you did know, or rem ...Written By: Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun along with all of the planets. Many of them are relatively close to the Su
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Thanks to the New Horizons probe's Tuesday flyby, there are, for the first time in history, some really good images of P
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 15, 2015
Videos
It's not every single day that we send a spacecraft all the way to Pluto, which is more than 3 billion miles away from E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For the first time in human history, a wave energy converter (or WEC) has been connected to the US energy grid. A protot
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 11, 2015
Technology
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that is powered by just four lithium ion batteries and has made several long f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 01, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
One of the cooler phenomena that occur in outer space are black holes, and famous physicist Stephen Hawking would agree.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Ever since the late 1990s, when NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter gave scientists their first really good images of Jupi
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 12, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to perform its flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto next month, but you can bet NASA is
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Very often, when referring to some simple theory or basic explanation of something, we hear "Well, it's not rocket scien
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 25, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Space has been called the final frontier and nations all over the world have gone on missions to faraway galaxies, lande
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 20, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Okay ladies and gentlemen, you may not be prepared for this. You may have never heard these words in the same sentence b
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 18, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It may have been stripped of its status as a full-fledged planet, but that doesn't mean scientists have lost interest in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Pluto, the dwarf planet right after Neptune in our Solar System, has been getting a lot of hype recently from NASA after
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAY 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA's Curiosity Rover has been exploring the lands of Mars for over two-and-a-half years. Also known as the ‘Red Planet
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAY 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
You know how every once in a while, in a presidential speech, or some statement from NASA, or a speech by someone in Con
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 13, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Sailing through space. Literally sailing on the solar wind, the photons emitted by the Sun. The idea was first introduce
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 07, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Research by a team of astronomers from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England suggests that asteroids and comets
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 04, 2015
Earth & The Environment
So, you want to put solar panels on your house. Great. You'll be generating clean electricity. You won't have to worry a
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In case you didn't know, or didn't remember, NASA has a probe orbiting Mercury called Messenger. If you did know, or rem
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop