Space Exploration

A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.

Learn about how spacecraft have helped us learn about our Solar System.

Learn about the dwarf planets in our Solar System.

Learn about a new material for spacesuits and the engineer who designed it.

Learn about where and when to find meteoroids, meteors and meteorites.

Learn about the amazing planets and moons of the outer Solar System.

Design and build a model space probe.

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Temperature affects the way we live, the clothes we wear and activities we do. But how does temperature vary across the globe?

Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Learn about telescopes that do their work high in Earth’s atmosphere and in space.

Learn about the history of telescopes and the function of refracting and reflecting optical telescopes.

Learn about radio astronomy, a type of astronomy that studies objects in space using radio waves and radio telescopes.

Some astronomers are not looking for stars, planets or galaxies. They are searching for intelligent life in the universe beyond our planet.