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NASA’s Rocket for the Future NASA’s new design for the rocket that will return us to the Moon, take us to Mars, the asteroids and perhaps…
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NASA’s Rocket for the Future NASA’s new design for the rocket that will return us to the Moon, take us to Mars, the asteroids and perhaps…

The Apollo Lunar missions excited the world when they happened. Few could believe that men were actually going to the Moon, much less…

The Solar System The Solar System formed about four and a half billion years ago out of a collapsing cloud of gas that might have been the…

How Diverse is the Solar System? Each planet in the Solar System has a distinct atmosphere. No two are alike, although some are similar to…

Water Everywhere… It seems like every year, the media inundates us with a barrage of information about the existence of water on Mars.…

Two Moons Are Better Than One Although similar in many ways, there are vast differences between the world we are familiar with –…

Why Do We Need It? During the last half-century, the modern world has become increasingly dependent on artificial satellites . We now rely…

What are These Regions? HII regions are massive formations of clouds of gas, primarily hydrogen, that have been ionized due to the…

Sumerian Astronomy The region archaeologists call Ancient Mesopotamia encompassed parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. It is…

Science Captivates an Audience The pursuit of science was once the domain, largely if not solely, of the rich or undistracted; examples…