Space Articles
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Spring Equinox
Today is the first day of spring! Students will learn all about the spring equinox and what it looks like from space!
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Snowstorm from Space
The article describes how there was a snowstorm in the northeastern United States, and scientists were able to see it from space!
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Google's Space Contest
The article describes Google's Lunar XPrize Competition. The contest tasked privately funded companies to build a robot to send to space to take pictures and come back. So far, they h…
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Supermoon
The article describes the supermoon on November 14th! Students will learn all about what a supermoon is, the last one occurred, and when the next one will occur in the future!
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Wow! Signal
The article discusses the Wow! Signal and possible causes. It also explains what the signal is, and new experiments that will take place!
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Earth After the Sun
The sun will eventually die out, and that will be the end of Earth. However, scientists don't expect this to happen for about 7 to 8 billion years from now.
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Are there Aliens?
The article describes Stephen Hawking's prediction about how humans will not find alien life within the next 20 years.
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Laser Shield
The article describes how scientists will be able to either shield the earth from aliens or contact aliens via lasers!
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Laser Shield
The article describes how scientists will be able to either shield the earth from aliens or contact aliens via lasers!
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Mars Life Hunt
The article describes how scientists are searching for life on mars, but they may have discovered the remains of an ancient biosphere!
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Magnetic Field
The article explains the sun's field rays and shows a video of it twisting and turning!
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B.o.B vs. Neil Tyson
The article describes how we know the Earth is round as a reaction to B.o.B's new track.
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Maintenance Spacewalk
The article describes how scientists and engineers have been fixing things at the International Space Station!
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NASA Space Telescope Installation
The video describes the installation of the first mirror of the new NASA Webb Space Telescope!
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Mars Views
The video describes how we will be able to see Mars this month, and we will be able to see great features of it next year!
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Space Images
The article describes how space photos are edited and why they are edited.
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Life in Space
The video describes life in space!
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Can Fish Swim in Space?
The video is a clip from StarTalk Radio about whether or not fish could swim in space! Astro Mike says that it would work, and they have tried this with candy fish, but they haven't t…
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The Rings of Mars?!
The article describes how Mars may become a ringed planet one day!
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NASA Update
The video is a weekly update by NASA about what's going on on the International Space Station!
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New Technology for Mars
The video discusses the emergence of new technology to help aid NASA's mission to Mars!
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Giant Hole in the Sun
The article describes how there is a giant hole in the sun that is the size of FIFTY Earths!
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Farming Water on Mars
The article describes how there is water on Mars, but there is not as much water on Mars as there is on Earth. This means that Martians are going to have to be water farmers!
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Feral Cat Tracking in Space
A new study shows that feral cat movement can be tracked in space!
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Water on Mars
Liquid water was found on Mars, and scientists believe that this means there is a definite possibility of life on Mars!
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Supermoon
The article describes information about the supermoon last night and shows pictures from around the world!
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Exploded Star
The article describes how the Hubble Telescope zoomed in on part of an exploded star. This can tell us about the formation of future stars and planets, and even life!
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NASAs MAVEN
The video describes how NASA's spacecraft, MAVEN is flying high above Mars right now to see how Mars lost its atmosphere and water.
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Unusual Solar System?
The article describes how a solar system can be classified as normal or unusual. The scientists in the article stated that our solar system is pretty normal!
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Giant Hexagon on Saturn
The article describes how there is a strange hexagon on Saturn, and now scientists may have an explanation!
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Super Moon
The article describes a super moon that will be visible from Earth on Sunday, September 27th at night!
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Speeding Hot Jupiter
The article describes rhe speed, shock, and electromagnetic force of Jupiter.
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NASAs Journey to Mars
The video describes NASA's journey to Mars!
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Oceans On Saturns Moon
The article describes how scientists discovered that there may be an ocean on one of Saturn's moons!
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NASA Spinoff
The article describes how space exploration affects everyones' daily lives!
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Twins Separate in Space and on Earth
The article describes how one twin from a set of twins is an astronaut and will be going up into space for a year. The other twin will remain on Earth, and both will be compared throu…
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Russian Fireball
The article describes a fireball that exploded over Russia last year. Scientists and researchers have discovered that the fireball shares an orbit with an asteroid that is going to pa…
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One Year Space Mission
The article describes the space mission which launched an American astronaut and a Russion cosmonaut into space for a year. This could lead to the possibility of landing on multiple d…
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Directions in Space!
This article describes how astronauts navigate and give directions in space! A NASA engineer explains it all!
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Cloud Spotted on Mars
This article discusses the cloud that was discovered on Mars! It discusses how the cloud was discovered, and what scientists think about it!
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Space Elevator
This article describes the possibility of going to space in an elevator. Students will learn about the concepts of engineering and the possibilities of going into space via an elevator.
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Bizarre Space Discoveries
This article explores the latest discoveries in astronomy. It discusses a massive debris ring, an earth-like planet, and much more! Read more and find out about the latest space news!
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Facts About the Sun
This article describes detailed facts about the sun. Students will learn about temperatures, reactions, and orbits!
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Ebola Helps Space Exploration?
This article discusses the possibilities of extraterrestrial organisms and how to protect humans from contracting their diseases. It compares diseases from Mars to Ebola, and teaches …
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What is Outer Space?
In this article, students will learn about space. They will explore concepts that compare and contrast earth and outer space.
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Air That Helps Aliens
Scientists have found that aliens may be able to thrive on a different form of carbon dioxide. The article describes the different form of carbon dioxide and gives examples of how the…
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Success in Space
This article presents information about a space probe which has landed on a comet. Scientists are currently working on having the probe explore the comet for research.
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Marvelous MAVEN
NASA has launched a new unmaned mission to Mars by the name of MAVEN. The robot will be going around the red planet and collecting samples and trying to determine if there is life on …
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Stellar Strength
A recent study has pointed out that Jupiter's size may help it divert asteroid and comets that would otherwise head towards earth. The largest planet has a strong gravitational pull w…
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Peggy is the latest moon
Many scientists had assumed that all the moons of Saturn had been discovered. However, a new mini-moon has been identified and it's named Peggy! Learn more about Peggy and Saturn in t…
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Space Walk
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station had to address a possible leak, which resulted in a space walk. There are a variety of actions that have to be taken to deal with su…
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Eye on the Storm
Astronomers have been monitoring a storm on Saturn's north pole for 10 years, and it still hasn't stopped! The storm is similar to a hurrican here on earth, however its magnitude is m…
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Jumbo Black Hole
A triple black hole has been spotted in the center of another galaxy and it looks like it'll do some major damage to the surrounding solar systems! This phenomenon is apparently more …
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Landing on a Comet
The European Space Agency is set to land a robot on a comet! How is this possible? Well, get that answered here!
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Water on another Planet?
Scientists have speculated that there maybe life on other worlds, and this recent finding of signs of water on another planet may confirm their suspicions. Learn more about this possi…
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'Blood Moon' will be a sight to behold during total lunar eclipse
There will be a total lunar eclipse soon that will turn the moon copper red. Such moons are called blood moons. There will be four of them within a year and a half and many in the 21s…
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The Universe is Expanding but How Quickly?
You can't see it happening on Earth, but space itself is stretching. Ever since the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been getting bigger. Sicentists are disc…
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Signs of Underground Ocean Found on Saturn Moon
NASA discovered an ocean at least as large as Lake Superior lies below a thick layer of ice on a moon of Saturn. There is a possibility that Saturn's sixth largest moon could be hospi…
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Now for the weather on Luhman: Cloudy with a chance of molten iron rain
Scientists have made the first weather map of the brown dwarf, Luhman. They have discovered that the dwarf planet contains patcy clouds compromised of liquid iron and other minerals i…
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Three new planets found and one orbits a twin of our sun
It's rare for astronomers to spot a planet in a star cluster. That's partly why a cluster called Messier 67 is so special. Now it is known that it has three planets orbiting stars. On…
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Was Your Ancestor a Ball of Jelly? Evolution Study Surprises Experts
New research is shedding light on the ancestor of all animals on Earth. Past studies theorized that sponges were our ancient ancestors. New genetic studies show that the comb jelly ac…
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Hubble Spots Water Plumes on Europa
Observations made through the Hubble telescope have shown that there is evidence of water on Jupiter's moon Europa. There has been evidence of geysers spewing water in Europa's South Pole.
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Secrets of Ancient Mars revealed in Meteorite
A 4.4 billion year old mars meteorite found in the Sahara Desert has given scientists more insight into the Martian world. This piece of meteorite holds the possible answer to Mars bi…
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Video: How Mars Looked 4 Billion Years Ago
Scientists are theorizing that Mars was indeed a habitable planet four billion years ago. NASA has created a very complex animation to show what this looked like.
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Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter
Dark matter makes up most of the cosmos, but do we really know what it is? Scientists are finally moving closer to finding an exact answer of what dark matter is made of!
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Space-Born Jellyfish Hate Life on Earth
An experiment on baby Jellyfish born in space revealed that these Jellyfish were not able to make sense of gravity when returned to Earth! The Jellyfish experienced massive vertigo on…
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Diamonds may be produced on other planets
Scientists have theorized that the planets Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune might be home to diamonds! These gaseous planets are able to support carbon in its different forms with…
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5 Sky Events This Week: Comet Buzzes Mars, False Dawn, Green Giant
The new month will bring different astronomical happenings throughout the night sky! Skygazers will get a chance to explore these amazing wonders!
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Northern Lights in a Lab?
Can't make it to the north pole to see the Northern Lights? That's ok, just head over to NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to see their recreation of the artistic ph…
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The Star In You
Children can learn about the elements inside themselves. These elements were created billions of years ago in stars!
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Aurora Borealis Explained
Children can view the Aurora Borealis in this video! They can also learn how these amazing lights are made in the night sky!
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Northern Lights
Does your child know about the Aurora Borealis? They can learn about it through this reading!
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What is an asteroid, a planetoid, a meteoroid?
On May 31st, 2013, an asteroid made its closest approach to earth in the next two centuries. But what on earth (or rather, in space) is an asteroid? This article explains what makes a…
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NASA Funding 3D Food Printer Research (The Replicator!?)
The world of 3D printer has expanded from making simple polymer objects to making weapons, and now to printing 3D food for astronauts? NASA is investing over $100,000 in research to c…
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Space X Dragon capsule splashes down with ton of space station cargo
Children can learn about the Space X Dragon and contributions it is making to space exploration!
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Space Shuttle Pictures: NASAs Last Launch a Success
Children can view these images of NASA's last space shuttle launch!
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Whoa! Mini-Supernovas Discovered
Children can learn how scientists have discovered mini super novas! Read to find all the facts!
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A Planet Made of Diamond, Twice the Size of Earth
Children can learn about a recently discovered planet made of diamonds! Read what has been found about this discovery.
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Radar reveals traces of monstrous Martian flood millions of years ago
Children will learn how new evidence that suggests that floods were a major part of Martian weather!
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Beyond NASA: Meet the folks who are planning trips to moon and Mars
Children can read this article to gain information about people who are planning trips to the moon and Mars!
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Steer a spaceship with your brain? Its a thought
Children can learn about how humans could potentially control spaceships with their minds!
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Lunar Eclipses for Beginners
You've heard the term lunar eclipse, but what does that really mean? This article lays down the basics.
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Daredevil Makes Free Fall From Space
In this article, your students can learn more about the man who made a free fall from space and his mission.
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How to Time Travel
In this video from National Geographic, your students can learn about the relationship between wormholes and time travel.
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Kepler - A Search for Habitable Planets
In this video, your sutdents can learn more about Kepler and NASA's search for other worlds.
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Black Hole Destroying a Star
In this video, your students can see what happens to a star caught by a black hole.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Mission Animation
Find out what big plans are in store for the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) through this exciting animation. Watch it fly through space, descend onto the surface of the re…
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Scientists Studying Moon Reflected Light Have Discovered Life on Earth
In this article students will learn how scientists 'discovered' life on Earth by looking at the moon and the possible implications of this discovery.
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New NASA Mission to Investigate How Mars Turned Hostile
Did you know some believe there was once life on Mars? In this article students will find out what NASA is doing to understand why Mars is such a hostile place today.
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Hubbles Science Legacy
In this video students will learn about the Hubble telescope and its importantance to space exploration.
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing
In this video students will see amazing footage of the first moon landing!
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Mars Rover: Opportunity
In this video students will learn all about one of the Mars Rovers and the planet it is exploring!
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Withholding Hubble Space Telescope Data
In this article students will learn why the public doesn't have real-time access to data from the Hubble telescope.
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Video: Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Toward International Space Station One Last Time
In this article students will gain an understanding of the last space shuttle mission and its impact on space exploration.
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First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked at Space Station
In this article students will learn why the first ever photos of the Space Shuttle docked at the International Space Station weren't taken until 2011.
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ISS Could Serve as Base Camp for Future Moon Missions
Now that we have the International Space Station (ISS), what should we do with it? In this article students will explore potential plans for the ISS!
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As Humans Take Leave of Space, Robot Explorers Will Go Farther and Look Closer Than Ever
The age of the space shuttle may be over, but that doesn't mean NASA's mission stopped! In this article students will gain an understanding of NASA's focus right now.
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Ten Tech Innovations From NASAs Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts
In this article students will learn about how discoveries made in the name of space exploration can help them in their daily lives! Learn all about innovation and science.
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China Launches Its First Space Station Module Into Orbit
In this article students will learn about China's attempts to join the space age.
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FYI: What Does Space Smell Like?
In this article students will gain insight into why space smells like a huge barbecue.
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Ground-Based Laser Cannon Turn Space Debris into Self-Powered Flaming De-Orbiting Rockets
In this article students will learn about one of the proposed solutions to all the debris orbiting the Earth.
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Apollo 13: Houston, We have a Problem
In this video, students will learn about the attempts to return the crew members of Apollo 13 safely to Earth.
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The Spacecraft that Keep Going and Going...
In this article students will learn about Voyager I and Voyager II and their journeys through the Solar System.
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Moon Landing Facts: Apollo 11 at 40
In this article celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, students will gain an understanding of how humans came to walk on the moon and whether or not we can again.
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How Many Planets are in Our Solar System?
When were the planets first discovered? How did astronomers decide what were planets and what weren't? Who discovered the asteroid belt? In this video, your students can find out t…
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Too Weird to be Believed: A New Planet in the Solar System?
In this video students will can see what astronomers do when they find a new object orbiting the sun in the night sky.
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Smog on Titan Moon May Hold Ingredients For Life, New Study Says
Do your class believe life exists on other planets? In this article students will learn more about how life could exist outside of planet earth someday.
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Gallery: Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere
In this article students will learn why auroras occur through a virtual gallery of breathtaking pictures from all over the United States.
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Dwarf Planet Eris Is Icy Double of Pluto
In this article students will learn about a not-quite-planet very nearly identical to Pluto.
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Earth Escapes Obliteration by Comet
In this article students will gain a greater understanding of how small comets can negatively impact planet Earth.
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King of the Ice Dwarfs
In this article students will learn more about the former planet Pluto.
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Why does Saturn have Rings?
In this article students will explore some of the theories about what Saturn's rings are made of and how they came to be.
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Planet X-treme Weather
In this article students will learn about the weather on other planets and moons in our Solar System.
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So, what are we REALLY doing about Mars?
In this article, students will learn more about NASA's plans to exploration plans concering Mars.
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Will the Real First Moon Mapper Please Stand Up?
In this article, your students can find out more about both the mapping of the moon and where credit often goes in scientific investigations.
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1969 Earths Moon Map
In this article, your students can view a virtutal map of used by astronauts during the first moon exploration.
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A New Look at Newtons Second Law Could Explain Away the Existence of Dark Matter
Is dark matter for real? Read one scientist's take on it in this article.
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Astronomers Make Extraordinarily Detailed Map of the Universes Dark Matter
In this article, your students can learn about dark matter and how scientists at NASA are beginning to map its locations.
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How interstellar pile-ups create the huge black holes at the center of galaxies
Huge black holes can often be found at the very center of galaxies--we even think the Milky Way has one! In this article, your students can find out how and why they form.
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Galaxy X, an Invisible Satellite Made of Dark Matter, Could be Lurking at the Milky Ways Edge
Did you know that some astronomers think there might be a galaxy made of dark matter only 300 light years from the Milky Way? Learn more in this article!
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Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble
In this article, your students can learn about something unique that young, hot stars can do.
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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets
In this article, your students can learn about how newborn planets might get water.
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The Solar System
Using this interactive map of the solar system, your students can learn more about everything from the planets to the sun.
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Cosmic Journeys: The Search For Earth-Like Planets
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beaut…
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Stars: Life and Death
In this video, your students can learn all about the life cycle of a star.
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Going Out with a Bang: The Death of a Massive Star
From this video, your students can find out what happens when stars die.
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What Would Happen If You Fell into a Black Hole?
In this video, your students can learn about what would happen if they were ever to be caught by a black hole.v
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Black Hole Caught Killing Star (and Eating it for Lunch)
In this video, your students can see what happens to stars caught by black holes.
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Why are Planets Round?
In this article, your students can learn why planets are round.
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What is in Space?
In this online book from NASA, your students can learn about everything that's actually out there in space like the moon and different planets.
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Cosmic Car Crash
In 2005, NASA intentionally crashed the spacecraft Deep Impact into Comet Tempel 1. In this article, your students can find out why!
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Black Holes: Stranger Than Fiction
The concept of black holes has intrigued scientists for hundreds of years. This video narrated by StarDate's Sandy Wood provides an introduction to black holes, explains the different…
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Search for Other Earths
In this article from National Geographic, your students can learn all about what scientists are doing in the search for Earth-like planets all over the universe.
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Milestones in Space Photography
In this collection from National Geographic, your students can see some of the most magnificent images of space and learn about when they were taken.
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Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns
In this article, your students can learn all about the planet with two suns recently found by scientists.
