The four hour Day
Do you ever feel there aren’t enough hours in a day? The dwarf planet Haumea takes approximately four hours to… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
Cosmic Snowballs
Often called “dirty snowballs”, comets are composed of frozen gases, rock and dust roughly the size of a small town…. Read More
Fly me to the moon
Neither Mercury nor Venus have moons. Scientists do not know why Venus doesn’t have a moon, but any object pulled… Read More
The 5 dwarves
When Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, it became the largest of 5 known dwarf planets in… Read More
As fast as the wind
Major hurricanes begin at sustained wind speeds of ~200km/h, at which point well-built houses may incur removal of roof decking,… Read More
The Great Red Spot
Discovered more than 400 years ago, the biggest active storm in our solar system is on Jupiter. Roughly 150 years… Read More