by Milan Sanader | Mar 31, 2020 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
How many planets are in the solar system? How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy? Learn facts about the solar system’s genesis, plus its planets, moons, and asteroids....
by msander | Sep 20, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
Researchers have discovered a planet orbiting a star just 16 light-years away, the very star that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said his fictional planet orbited. Source: Researchers discover planet Vulcan from Star Trek — sort of | CBC News
by msander | Jul 6, 2018 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
If you’ve taken a look at the southeastern sky after midnight recently, you may have noticed what appears to be a red star rising in the east. But that’s no star. It’s Mars — and it is about to get closer to Earth than it has been in a very long...
by msander | Jun 27, 2018 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
We only know of one planet in our universe that harbours life: Earth. So it’s logical that humanity has focused its search for life beyond our world on planetary bodies. But a new study suggests that we may be leaving out a larger chunk of the cosmos: moons....
by msander | Nov 6, 2017 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry, Gr. 11-12 Physics
To do so will require a purpose-built space telescope and a parasol the size of a baseball diamond. Learn more:...
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