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A star is a glowing, spherical astronomical object. Stars are held together by their own gravitational forces. The star closest to the Earth is the Sun.
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JUN 01, 2017Neuroscience
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? In the summer of 2014, Pete Frates, a former Boston College basketball star, came up ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA is planning to announce an unprecedented mission some this week in which the space agency will validate its interes ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 29, 2017Videos
Did you know that a three-planet alignment, called a conjunction, is actually quite common? It happens every two years o ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
The seemingly-endless search for extraterrestrial life in our universe continues on, and while we haven’t found an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 25, 2017Neuroscience
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About two years ago, astronomers noticed that an abnormal amount of light was being blocked from a star system dubbed KI ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
While studying distant exoplanets from other systems, astronomers sometimes come across surprising discoveries about the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
Some 1,500 light years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an explosion resembling the colorfulness and shape o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
The formation of our Solar System leaves a lot of unanswered questions, but as we continue to study it in more detail wi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 30, 2017Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
You’ve never seen a black hole before. Everything you’ve come across on the Internet so far has only either ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 23, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been studying the mysterious breakup of asteroid P/2013 R3 for over three years, and while the reasonin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 20, 2017Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our universe, anywhere else besides Earth, continues to be a long and drawn-out process. So far, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope helps astronomers locate distant exoplanets, but they still appear fuzzy in the viewfinder be ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
The long-standing idea is that dark energy makes up at least 68% of the universe. It’s believed to help drive its ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
Planet Nine is something that astronomers can’t do much more than predict at this point in time. While we’re ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
Half of a millennium ago, two young stars (dubbed protostars) located in the in the Orion constellation were gravitation ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 07, 2017Space & Astronomy
When scientists look for exoplanets, one type that stands out the most are terrestrial Earth-like exoplanets. Unlike gas ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 06, 2017Videos
The Dark Star cave system has been called the Everest of the underground world. The only difference is that its depths h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA is constantly monitoring the Sun with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is an observation device built sp ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 28, 2017Videos
When a ball is bounced on the ground, it will travel to a certain height depending on what kind of ball it is, its size ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
It would seem that all this hubbub about nanosatellites isn’t as out of reach as originally thought. Scientists ar ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
When precariously-perched rocky material on comet 67P’s Aswan cliff lost its balance and tumbled down from the top ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2017
Neuroscience
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? In the summer of 2014, Pete Frates, a former Boston College basketball star, came up
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA is planning to announce an unprecedented mission some this week in which the space agency will validate its interes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 29, 2017
Videos
Did you know that a three-planet alignment, called a conjunction, is actually quite common? It happens every two years o
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The seemingly-endless search for extraterrestrial life in our universe continues on, and while we haven’t found an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 25, 2017
Neuroscience
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are terms that are used interchangeably to refer to a range of symptoms, disor
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
About two years ago, astronomers noticed that an abnormal amount of light was being blocked from a star system dubbed KI
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While studying distant exoplanets from other systems, astronomers sometimes come across surprising discoveries about the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Some 1,500 light years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an explosion resembling the colorfulness and shape o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The formation of our Solar System leaves a lot of unanswered questions, but as we continue to study it in more detail wi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
Goldfish are among some of the world’s most popular species of pet fish, but despite popular belief, it’s ge
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
You’ve never seen a black hole before. Everything you’ve come across on the Internet so far has only either
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 23, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been studying the mysterious breakup of asteroid P/2013 R3 for over three years, and while the reasonin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our universe, anywhere else besides Earth, continues to be a long and drawn-out process. So far,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The Kepler Space Telescope helps astronomers locate distant exoplanets, but they still appear fuzzy in the viewfinder be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The long-standing idea is that dark energy makes up at least 68% of the universe. It’s believed to help drive its
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Planet Nine is something that astronomers can’t do much more than predict at this point in time. While we’re
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Half of a millennium ago, two young stars (dubbed protostars) located in the in the Orion constellation were gravitation
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2017
Space & Astronomy
When scientists look for exoplanets, one type that stands out the most are terrestrial Earth-like exoplanets. Unlike gas
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 06, 2017
Videos
The Dark Star cave system has been called the Everest of the underground world. The only difference is that its depths h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA is constantly monitoring the Sun with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is an observation device built sp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 28, 2017
Videos
When a ball is bounced on the ground, it will travel to a certain height depending on what kind of ball it is, its size
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It would seem that all this hubbub about nanosatellites isn’t as out of reach as originally thought. Scientists ar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
When precariously-perched rocky material on comet 67P’s Aswan cliff lost its balance and tumbled down from the top
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard