
STEM Zone: Predicting lunar phases
Teach Moon phases with this easy lunar activity By Dr. Daniel Barth One of the crucial questions that teachers and home school parents face is: ‘How do I provide high quality science instruction?...

You don’t have to sail the high seas or come across an ancient map to find buried treasure. In fact, all around us precious metals are located just beneath the surface waiting to be found. All you ...

May Favorite Virgo is a Galactic Treasure Trove
Offering up a feast of intriguing galaxies, the Virgo constellation is an ideal May target for stargazers in either hemisphere. As the second-largest constellation, Virgo covers 1,294 square degree...

The Lyrids are here! Maximize your meteor count!
Our bustling solar system is littered with rocky particles of space debris known as meteoroids. Although most are unimpressive in size, these pebble-sized pieces of cosmic clutter can still put o...

Meet the Moon: A Journey Across The Lunar Terrain
It’s a steady presence in all of our lives, but few people take the time to truly get to know Earth’s closest neighbor. In this recurring blog post, accomplished astronomer and astrophotographer D...

Make your own Earth-Moon system model
It can be difficult for kids to truly understand the Earth-Moon system using just textbooks and websites. In these sources the relative size of the Earth and Moon are often shown incorrectly and th...