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What if we told you this lesson was about planets outside our solar system passing gas? But don't worry, it's *physics* gas! Students will learn a lot, we promise.

What happens when a planet forms near a black hole? That's what a bunch of researchers wanted to know. And it turns out that it's not too unlike a scene in the old movie Spaceballs where the [...]

When I think space stuff, I think solid, steady masses moving in organized orbits and rotations. But it turns out, they wobble! Isn't that kind of cute to think of a wobbling planet? Just me? [...]

The vastness of space can boggle the mind, but when it comes down to it, the same forces that determine what happens when you drop an apple in the lunch line also determine how galaxies form and [...]

Space is big. (duh). So big that getting anywhere close to even our solar system's nearest neighbors seems impossible. But what if we told you that you that researchers have a plan to make [...]

How do you design a robot that can swim efficiently under water? Scientists are studying the physics behind dolphin movement for the answer! (And if you're wondering why scientists are [...]

Quantum physics is behind advances in digital cameras and cell phones, so it must also be able to explain the basics, right? Wrong. It turns out that classical physics doesn’t always work in the [...]

What separates the gold medal sprinters from the casual weekend jogger...besides the intense training, of course? Thanks to a careful analysis of human runners and good old-fashioned physics, we [...]

Fins, wings, and...fractions? Find out how simple measurements revealed a striking convergence among animals as varied as whales, birds, and sea butterflies. (Wondering what a sea butterfly is? [...]

Sometimes you need to slow things down to figure out what’s going on. At a molecular level, slowing things down requires some pretty specialized equipment: lasers.