You may have noticed that all the questions I have received are from girls.
To be fair, I have received questions from boys, I just haven’t gotten to them yet. But I find it interesting that most of the questions I have received indeed do come from girls.
Why is that? I don’t really have an answer, [...]

Comets and shooting stars are very different beasts. But what exactly are they? SkyGuy gives the answer…

This just in … water found on the moon!
But wait …. we are searching for water on Mars. We don’t have a lander on the Moon, and we haven’t been to the Moon since the Apollo missions. So how can scientists find water on the Moon now?
Believe it or not, it is precisely those samples [...]

Here in the United States, the 4th of July is a holiday. We celebrate the birth of our nation. It’s a holiday filled with fireworks and parties.
July 4th is also aphelion. This is the day of the year when the earth is at its farthest from the sun. Yet, even though we get 1.7% less [...]