Space Science

Gamma rays might make you think of cancer, harmful radiation or superheroes. But gamma rays have lots of uses: food safety, manufacturing and even medicine!

Use a pop bottle and other everyday materials to create a rocket that you can launch outdoors.

Why do a baseball and a rocket need the same launch speed to get from Earth into space? It has to do with physics and gravitational force.

This backgrounder explains the difference between planets, dwarf planets and small solar system bodies, such as asteroids and comets.

Learn how people came to understand the source of cosmic radiation, as well as how this radiation impacts those who work in and travel on airplanes.

If an asteroid were to hit the Earth it could be disastrous. Here are some ways we could protect ourselves.

Students explore the cycle of day and night by sorting and classifying pictures, creating images and reading books.

Find out how asteroids, space debris, and cosmic radiation can be dangerous, and how to monitor them and protect ourselves from these space hazards.

This backgrounder has information about both cosmic & neutron radiation.

This backgrounder helps explain the laws of Orbital Mechanics, including Newton’s Laws.