Tag: space
What is a dwarf planet?
Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Curious Kids is a series...
A lunar return, a Jupiter moon, the most powerful rocket ever...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
Space travel is all about momentum.
Rockets turn their fuel into...
Real shooting stars exist, but they aren’t the streaks you see...
Idan Ginsburg, Georgia State University
“I see thy glory like a shooting star.”
So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future...
How many satellites are orbiting Earth?
Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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It seems like every week, another rocket...
Why does gravity pull us down and not up?
Mario Borunda, Oklahoma State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Are there any planets outside of our solar system?
Jean-Luc Margot, University of California, Los Angeles
Curious Kids is a series for children of...
From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors –...
Greg Eghigian, Penn State
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or,...
The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating...
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
