Have you ever seen a headline like, "Planet a zillion* kilometers away has water vapor in its atmosphere!" and wondered how do they know that? Turns out the answer is pretty simple: Light! Turns [...]
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.
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? [...]
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 [...]