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Can you solve this grid-based logic puzzle about NASA? You are doing a science project about four of NASA’s spacecraft: Clipper, DAVINCI, Dragonfly and MAVEN. Each spacecraft will visit another planet in the solar system: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. They also have different launch dates: 2013, 2024, 2028 and 2030.

This quiz has a spacey flavour! So will you soar towards the stars and get full marks, or are you about to come crashing back to Earth?

We’ve got the buzz about bugs, so let’s explore our six-legged pollinators. Will you take the sting out of this quiz and get 5/5 or just call pest control?

What on Earth can jump the highest? Olympic high jumpers can clear more than 2 metres. Pumas might be the best animals at jumping, able to leap 7 metres into a tree. But a team of researchers from the USA have just made a robot that jumps higher than any animal!

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made history by flying on Mars. To celebrate the first flight of a copter on another planet, here’s a simple unpowered helicopter you can build at home!

There’s no rhyme or reason to this quiz. It’s just some of the strangest and hardest science questions we could find. Can you beat the odds and get 5/5?

It’s not just robots that rove – this quiz celebrates roving in all its forms! Can you manage to find all the right answers?

For almost two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting an asteroid named 101955 Bennu. It’s done tons of science, scanning the rock from many angles. Right now, OSIRIS-REx is preparing to head back to Earth. But before leaving Bennu, the spacecraft reached out and touched the asteroid.

By Bill Flynn Whether you are at school, at home or self-isolating you can be a part of the United Nations International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on Monday 7 September. How? By contributing to NASA’s citizen science global database! Download the GLOBE Observer app and photograph the cloud cover from your window, […]

Earth is active down to its very rocks. Earthquakes and volcanoes shake our planet, and the continents themselves drift lazily across the surface. Compared to Earth, the Moon is a cold, hard rock. But even lunar rocks are more active than you might think.