Articles by James Fite

Unlike chemistry and astronomy, archaeology isn’t a physical science. It’s considered one of the humanities. In many ways, it’s more of an art, though it does require the use of techniques spanning multiple hard sciences. Archaeologists excavate (a fancy word… Read More

On April 1, 2026, the Artemis II mission – the first manned trip to the moon since 1972 – launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. There won’t be any landing on the lunar surface until the… Read More

Today, astronomy is one of the core branches of physical science, focusing on the study of objects in space and the vast universe beyond Earth. But long before human eyes ever peered through the first telescope lenses, they gazed upward… Read More

Today, chemistry is one of the core branches of physical science, the segment of natural science that doesn’t focus on living organisms. Like the other sciences, it relies upon tested observations and experiments, aims for unbiased analysis to get at… Read More

How many planets are in our solar system, and what is the one farthest out? The answers  may reveal your age, because things changed after Aug. 24, 2006. On that day, the answers became eight – and Neptune is the… Read More

The eighth planet from our sun, Neptune, is a giant swirly ball of ice and wind, unlike any other world in our solar system. So much remains unknown about what is now considered the most distant planet in our system…. Read More

January marks the beginning of the new year – but that wasn’t always the case. The Gregorian calendar we follow today was inspired by an ancient Roman calendar that, according to legend, was designed by Romulus, the first king of… Read More

All over the English-speaking world, people break out in song on New Year’s Eve. From Australia to Canada, from the United States to the United Kingdom, and from New Zealand to the song’s ancestral home in Scotland, Auld Lang Syne… Read More

As the classic Christmas song says, “Christmas comes but once a year” – and that day is December 25. The holiday is celebrated worldwide as the birthday of Jesus, but no matter how hard you search, you won’t find that… Read More

Yet more polls reveal young adults have a significant lack of trust in such American institutions as the government and the media. The surveys may be new, but the trend is not. As we move into a new year, we… Read More

Earth may be the most unusual planet orbiting our sun. After all, what other can boast life –plant, animal, or otherwise? A close runner-up, however, would be the seventh planet out, Uranus. With temperatures as low as negative 357 degrees… Read More

To many, Thanksgiving may seem like a uniquely American holiday. To be fair, our own version of it is. Celebrating the Pilgrims’ survival of that first harsh year in New England wouldn’t make much sense in Japan, for example. Yet… Read More