Physical Science

When faced with a redox reaction, sadly, you can’t rely on the atoms and molecules alone to guide you in balancing. There will often be multiple solutions that appear to be right, yet don’t reflect chemical reality. To make sure…
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Planets and stars may look very much alike in the night sky, but they are very different in their nature. As strange as it may seem, the biggest difference between the two is size. Planets can be gaseous or rocky,…
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As is the case for all other planets in the solar system, a naming system has been established for the planet Uranus, under which the names for all newly discovered moons must be drawn from a single literary category. Unlike…
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William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope probably never imagined, in their wildest flights of fancy, that their characters’ names would ever grace the moons of a planet billions of miles away. Carving a path through the remote expanses of our solar system, that…
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The moon does not actually shine but is illuminated by light from the sun. As the moon continues in its orbit, the amount of light reaching the surface of the moon varies according to where it is in relation to the…
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The universe is filled with strange and exotic objects. One that is quite fascinating is a pulsar, for many reasons. Once a person has a general idea of what a pulsar is, it is natural that they might want to…
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Since normal air is primarily nitrogen, with a little bit of oxygen and traces of some other gases, it might appear that nitrogen does not need discovery. After all, this is what people are submerged in throughout their lives. But…
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For quite some time, astronomers have been chasing after evidence of one of the most elusive – but most prevalent – substances in the universe: an invisible, seemingly undetectable form of matter which they call dark matter. In recent years,…
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Move over Michael Jackson.  Moon walking may be next for Jesus Christ, whose child star image is now being reported as being seen upon the lunar surface. It appeared on January 19, 2011, and persisted for a few days.  Some…
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Most people have heard of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), but relatively few people are familiar with the astronomer after whom it was named. Edwin Hubble (1889-1954) was a key figure in 20th-century astronomy, so much so that not only…
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