Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22nd for over 50 years! It began in 1970 when 20 million people coordinated across the nation to raise awareness about environmental issues. Their efforts helped ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine is ...

For billions of years on Earth, the only interaction life on this world had with anything beyond our planet was from the occasional glimpses of faint lights in the night sky. Point-like stars, planets ...

Earth Day, an occasion promoted by environmental organizations and advocates to raise awareness of conservation issues, is April 22. It’s an event that dates back to 1970. Teachers sometimes organize ...

The atmosphere’s concentration of carbon dioxide—a potent greenhouse gas—has been increasing in recent years faster than had been forecast by even the most extreme projections of a decade ago. At ...

With 180 lessons in our online catalog, you can explore Earth and space with us all year long. We show you how with this handy NASA-JPL school year calendar. The twin Voyager spacecraft launched in ...

We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week. The world is facing an unprecedented coronavirus pandemic so the organizers of Earth Day are planning to “flood” the Internet with a ...

Two Mankato East teachers took their experimental earth science lesson for a test flight in front of a NASA evaluator this week. Dave Burgess, a high school science and astronomy instructor, and ...