Mr. Meehen's Science Class

09/19/2017

Cassini has been out there hard at work for a long time. The Saturn probe departed Earth in 1997 and spent seven years speeding across the solar system to arrive in orbit around the ringed planet in 2004.

04/20/2017

Go explore!

We like to say we know less about the ocean here on Earth than we do about the surface of Mars, because while we have a vague idea of its overall structure, we’ve only properly seen less than 0.05 percent of it.

04/04/2017

Could be very, very big

Researchers have achieved a major turning point in the quest for efficient desalination by announcing the invention of a graphene-oxide membrane that sieves salt right out of seawater.

03/27/2017

A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.

03/15/2017

Physics strikes again!

After more than 100 years of debate featuring the likes of Einstein himself , physicists have finally offered up mathematical proof of the third law of thermodynamics, which states that a temperature of absolute zero cannot be physically achieved...

03/06/2017

Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX announced Monday that it plans to launch two paying customers around the Moon in late 2018. How hard will that be to accomplish, exactly?

02/24/2017

NASA is investigating the possibility of putting astronauts on the first launch of its most powerful rocket ever – the Space Launch System (SLS) – which would dramatically speed up its plans to get humans back to the Moon, and one day to Mars.

02/23/2017

In one of the most significant exoplanet discoveries to date, NASA just announced that not one, but seven Earth-sized planets have been found orbiting the habitable or 'temperate zone' of a star just 39 light-years away.

01/14/2017

Despite sounding like the most egregious contradiction in physics, hot water appears to freeze faster than cold water under certain circumstances. The phenomenon can be traced back to Aristotle himself , but after centuries of experiments...

11/23/2016

Hidden galaxy!

Scientists have discovered a hidden dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way - and it could change our understanding of how dark matter holds galaxies together.

10/22/2016

08/10/2016

20 more days till school!!!!!........doh!