Critical Thinking

Did you know the Earth is travelling around the Sun at nearly 107,000 kilometres per hour?

The temperature on Earth is just right for life to exist. If it was too hot or too cold it would not be habitable.

Have you noticed that your shadow changes over time? The cartoon on this page shows why shadows change during the day.

Should humans colonise Mars? Is there life in the Universe? Science continually seeks to answer big questions - but it takes a lot of research and communication to come to a consensus. 

Why not host a debate and try it yourself?

Star clusters are large groups of stars. These clusters provide fantastic (in fact, out of this world(!)) laboratories for us to study populations of stars.

An exoplanet is a planet which orbits a star that is not our Sun. The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992. It was found in orbit around the pulsar PSR 1257+12.

Many years ago, a mathematician named Johannes Kepler created a set of rules explaining planets' movement in our Solar System.

Did you know that what you weigh depends on the strength of gravity? And did you know that the strength on gravity on other planets is not the same as on Earth?