

Astronauts have grown plants in space!
Space journeys can be very, very long. Sometimes astronauts stay in space for months and months at a time. And right now there are people...
Watch the moon cross the planet Earth
In this video you can see what it looks like as the moon travels around the Earth. #space #moon #orbit #Earth


What does Pluto look like?
At the beginning of this year, a space probe that was launched 9 years ago started to approach the dwarf planet Pluto. Humans had never...


Happy Birthday, Hubble Telescope!
Twenty-five years ago, in the year 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into Earth's orbit. The telescope carries a 2.4 metre...
The Big Bang Theory
#bigbang #science #universe #creation #astrophysics #physics #solarsystem


The life-cycle of a star
Galaxies are littered with clouds of dust and gas. A star is formed when a cloud made of hydrogen gas gathers a knot of dust inside it...


How we measure space
Measuring distance in space is pretty complicated. Over the years scientists have come up with a few different ways of measuring - or...


View Jupiter this February
It is fitting that February celebrates the planet Jupiter, the 5th planet from the Sun. During February Jupiter is in opposition which...
How much Moon can we see?
The Moon always orbits the Earth with the same side facing us and it wasn't until man first visited space and the Moon in the 1960s that...


Does the Sun Rotate?
While all other objects in the Solar System are constantly moving, rotating and orbiting, does the Sun also rotate? Yes, we can observe...