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The smallest planet in our solar system is also the closest to the sun. That means on Mercury, one year is just 88 days long! Discover more facts about the small but mighty Mercury.

In 1949, Dorothy Vaughan became the first African American woman to lead a team at NASA's Langley Research Center. Her work as a mathematician was an important part of helping the United States explore space. Learn more about Vaughan's life as a famous mathematician!

The only planet to support life, Earth has a lot going for it. Think you know everything there is to know about our home planet? Think again. Discover more about the blue planet we call home.

Mars is famous for its coloring, but the fourth planet from the sun has more than that going for it. Discover more interesting facts and secrets about the famous "red planet."

The second brightest object in the sky, after the moon is Venus. It's also the only planet named after a woman. Learn more about bright, beautiful Venus, named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

Far off Neptune holds many mysteries! Its great distance from the sun makes it the coldest planet in the solar system. Discover the secrets of this chilly, blue ice giant that was named after the sea.

Saturn is famous for its rings. This very windy planet has another claim to fame—it has the most moons of all eight planets! Discover more amazing facts about the sixth planet in the solar system!

Scott Kelly, an American astronaut, went to space in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2015, he spent nearly a year in space. While there, his body was compared to his twin's on the ground. The data helped us learn about the impacts of space on the human body. Learn more about Kelly's life as an astronaut!

The sun shines bright during the day, but why can't you see it at night? Follow the patterns of the sun and Earth to learn what causes day and night.

Animals have many traits that help them survive in the wild. Inspired by animals' incredible abilities, military forces have created many machines over the years to achieve success on the battlefield. From the first remote-controlled vehicles to the advanced machines of tomorrow, learn how military robots and drones often imitate the abilities of animals throughout nature. Then be sure to catch the other amazing titles in the Beasts and the Battlefield series.

Do you see that? It's a plane! Find out about the people who fly them. Listeners will learn what pilots do and how people get this exciting job.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and has a special feature, it tilts! Discover the mysteries of this ice giant that sits half in darkness for more than 40 years at a time!

Everything about Jupiter is big! Its size is big. Even its storms are big! Get the big and small facts about this gas giant that can be seen glowing in the night sky.

Growing up in the 1920s on a dirt-poor farm in North Dakota, Mary Sherman's life was filled with chores—until she finally began school and discovered she loved to learn. Mary excelled at science, especially chemistry, and leaped at the chance to work in a laboratory during World War II designing rocket fuels. And when the US decided to enter the space race, Mary was chosen over her male colleagues to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite.

Einmal richtiger Astronaut oder Astronautin sein? Davon träumen Leo und seine große Schwester Laila schon lange. Dass sie von einer intelligenten, aber auch recht eigensinnigen Rakete kurzerhand mit auf ein großes Weltraum-Abenteuer genommen werden, das hätten sie sich nicht träumen lassen. So betrachten die Geschwister die Erde von oben, besichtigen die Internationale Raumstation, schweben über dem Mond, unterhalten sich mit Mars-Robotern und schließen fern in den Weiten unseres Sonnensystems Freundschaft mit einer kleinen Prinzessin.

Space technology helps us learn more about our world, solar system, galaxy, and beyond! From NASA’s incredible inventions that we use in our everyday lives to rovers that explore distant planets, listeners will learn about all kinds of technologies with this series.

Asteroids bombard our atmosphere all the time. Some are harmless, burning up in a flash of light. But others explode with a great sonic boom, smashing windows and throwing people to the ground. Worst of all, some asteroids strike our planet, blasting out massive craters and destroying everything nearby on impact.

Did you know that the sun is a star? Without the sun’s light and heat, there would be no live on Earth. Kids will learn why the sun is so important to us in this musical audiobook perfect for young scientists.

Beim Hören wirst Du verstehen, warum Sterne leuchten und was das mit tanzenden Teilchen, Luftdruck und Wärme zu tun hat. Mit dem Kohlenstoff-Kreislauf des Lebens, CO2 und Pflanzen. Mit der Entstehung des Universums, der Milchstraße und unserer Welt. Du wirst verstehen: Bei dieser kleinen Frage geht es um Leben und Tod. Und um Bausteine, die in Sternen entstehen. Bausteine, aus denen alles auf dieser Erde gebaut ist. Auch wir. Denn wir sind aus Sternenstaub. Wir schauen nicht nur in den Sternenhimmel. Wir sind ein Teil davon.

"Der Weltraum. Unendliche Weiten. Ich wollte auch immer mutig dorthin gehen, wo noch nie zuvor ein Mensch war. Leider waren die ersten drei Minuten meines Astrophysikstudiums so vollgepackt, dass mein Traum vom erfolgreichen, attraktiven Raketenwissenschaftler in einer Wolke von 'Hä?'-s verpuffte.