Exploration
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Sunspot Cycles
Children can learn about sunspots in this experiment. They can learn all about the cycle and even track it!
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Correlation of Coronal Mass Ejections with the Solar Sunspot Cycle
Children can explore the correlation between coronal mass ejection activity and the solar sunspot cycle.
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Where Did All the Stars Go?
In this experiment, children will learn why they can see stars in some places compared to others. This is a great way to get introduced to astronomy.
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Into Space!
In this online game, your students can launch a rocket to space with the goal of getting there in the shortest number of days possible.
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Mission to Jupiter
In this online game, your students can help Juno, the latest rocket sent by NASA to Jupiter, explore the largest planet in our solar system.
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Space Quiz
Space is a mysterious place but there are plenty of things we are sure about when it comes to that vast space that surrounds us here on earth. Your students can challenge what they th…
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Space Word Search
Your students can test how many space-related words they already know by trying to find them in this word search! You can also help them find new words that they don't already know!
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Solar System Explorer
In this online game from NASA, your students can fulfill different missions all around the solar system.
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Deep Impact Comet on a Stick
In this activity, your students can build their own model of a comet, and then use the same process as scientists and engineers to evaluate its weaknesses and strengths.
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Asteroid Resources (Edible Asteroid Mining)
In this activity, your students can plan their own mission to an asteroid. They'll also get to simulate a miniature mining expedition of an edible asteroid.
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