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Watching deep-space fireworks
Science News for Kids — An orbiting telescope records the universes most powerful explosions Space is full of fireworks: Galaxies smash into each other, dying stars explode and high-energy particles race toward us at the speed of light. The most powerful explosions in ...More…
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Either Martians or Mars has gas
Science News for Kids — Cows and Mars have at least one thing in common methane. Like flatulent (or farting) cows that produce the gas, the Red Planet releases clouds of methane, according to a recent study. Researchers wonder whether colonies of bacteria hidden ...More…
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Deep-space dancers
Science News for Kids — In a galaxy far, far away, black holes are spinning around each other If you gaze through a telescope at a distant galaxy, it may glow brightly with the light of hundreds of millions of stars. Despite all that light, most scientists think that at ...More…
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The most popular stars
Science News for Kids — Dwarf stars come in many colors, and arent so small after all Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Hawaiian Starlight, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope As long as people have been living on Earth, weve been looking up at bright stars in the night sky, trying ...More…
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The Earth-bound asteroid scientists saw coming
Science News for Kids — History-making asteroid tracked from space to its fiery demise in an African desert On October 7, 2008, an asteroid the size of a car blazed through the atmosphere and crashed into the Nubian Desert in the African nation of Sudan. Eyewitnesses ...More…
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The hungry blob at the edge of the universe
Science News for Kids — Scientists have observed one of the oldest objects in the sky, possibly a galaxy in a growth spurt Using a telescope atop a Hawaiian mountain, astronomers recently caught sight of an enormous, newfound glowing object in deep, deep space. If you ...More…
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New eyes to scan the skies
Science News for Kids — Four hundred years ago, an Italian scientist named Galileo Galilei became the first person to see the craters on the moon. Galileo, who also observed four of Jupiters moons and the rings of Saturn, was one of the first people to use a telescope ...More…
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Super Star Cluster in the Neighborhood
Science News for Kids — Astronomers have spotted an amazingly compact grouping of stars in the Milky Way. Imagine cramming hundreds of thousands of bright, young stars into a space no bigger than our solar system. Talk about a traffic jam! Astronomers have observed such ...More…
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Return to Space
Science News for Kids — NASA is readying the space shuttle Discovery for its first launch in more than 2 years. I was a fifth-grader when the space shuttle Challenger blew up on Jan. 28, 1986. I'll never forget that day. For weeks before the launch, people had been ...More…
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Solving a Sedna Mystery
Science News for Kids — Astronomers are learning more about the most-remote object known in the solar system. Orbiting beyond Pluto, a planetoid called Sedna has aroused plenty of curiosityand created some confusionsince its discovery last year. It's the most-remote ...More…
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Killers from Outer Space
Science News for Kids — A newly revised scale rates the risk that an asteroid may crash into Earth and wipe out life as we know it. At any moment, a giant chunk of rock could come screaming down from outer space to slam into Earth. Such an impact very likely killed off ...More…
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Chaos Among the Planets
Science News for Kids — The screwball travels of four giant planets may have reshaped the early solar system. Once upon a time, many, many years ago, the giant planets in our solar system took different paths around the sun than they follow now. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...More…