Mars

Cool facts and tips about the April 2024 solar eclipse.

A math teacher at a New Iberia, Louisiana, elementary school was completely stunned to learn that she won a prestigious award worth $25,000 in cash.

A lawsuit has been filed that claims that Skittles contain a “known toxin” that makes them “unfit for human consumption.”

The space agency has this advice for kids “Engage [your] curious minds, get a good science education and come help us solve problems.”

The world's youngest astronaut-in-training is 18-year-old Alyssa Carson from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

It's a rare celestial spectacle that might remind you of one of your favorite video games.

It was the highest NASA has flown in 40 years. Yesterday's inaugural launch of an Orion spacecraft went of flawlessly. This is the vehicle that will carry astronauts to Mars in 2030.

For ages, Scientist have stated that, at one time, there may have been water on Mars. Imagine their excitement when the Mars Curiosity Rover found water in the very first scoop of Martian soil! As it turns out, there's quite a bit of water on Mars. Nothing like the lakes and rivers on earth, but Martian soil has quite a bit of H2O in it.

There were some really tense minutes for a while...7 minutes to be exact, but I'm sure that to everyone in the blue NASA shirts, those 7 minutes (of terror) seemed like a lifetime.  The blue shirts can all breathe easier now, because Curiosity has landed, safely, on Mars...