Can you imagine taking a trip into outer space? Can you envision the incredible sights you’d see peering out the window of the Space Shuttle? For most of us space travel will remain just a dream, but it’s still fun to dream!
When you look at the sky during the night, are you fascinated by the stars? Thousands of years ago, our ancestors were also fascinated by the night and day skies. They gave names to different stars and planets and they created stories about them.
Black holes can be best described as a sort of vacuum, sucking up everything in space. You know how a vacuum sucks dirt, dust, toys, clothes and other objects when Mom or Dad uses it to clean the living room? That’s exactly how black holes are! Many people think about black holes as an intense [...]
Asteroids are bodies of mass in our solar system that are composed of rock and metal. Asteroids have been in orbit around the planets Mars and Jupiter for thousands of years. Because they are nearly the same shape and are also composed of the same matter as that of planets, asteroids have been described as [...]
Have you ever considered the possibility that there is a planet, which is similar to ours, or that there are beings which live outside the solar system? Have you ever tried counting the stars during the night? People have had questions like these for centuries. Although there is no proof yet that there are extraterrestrial [...]
