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Our technology has been progressing rapidly for many years and some of it is pretty advanced. The primary thing about technology is that we never know what amazing thing we can or will achieve next. The progress of technology and society is limited by many things— cost is ...

This distance is 93 million miles. It is so far that even light takes eight minutes to cover the distance. In fact, when ...

The eighth planet is about 30 times further from the Sun than Earth. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert ...

... Moon, or 18 percent as big as the Earth. It's the smallest planet but is twice the size of the largest asteroid, Ceres. ---- Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph ...

The Milky Way Galaxy is very large, any way you look at it. It is about 100,000 light years across. That's really big. Our solar system orbits the galaxy, similar to the way the Earth orbits the Sun. The galaxy is so big that we have only completed ...

Our solar system is much bigger than you probably think. Pluto, the farthest planet, is about 3.5 billion miles away. If the Sun were the size of a bowling ... be smaller than a pin head and ten football fields away. But the solar system is bigger than that, still. ---- Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and ...

... study meteorites, some of the oldest rocks in the solar system, to learn about how and when our Sun and planets were created. Some of these meteorites are 4.6 billion years old According to current theories, Uranus and all of the planets in our solar system are slightly younger—about 4.5 billion years old. ---- Answer provided by ...

... .7 billion light years plus or minus 200 million light years. This is an incredible achievement for humans—from our position on Earth in a galaxy called the Milky Way, scientists called cosmologists have been able to gauge the size of our entire Universe for the first time. Amazing stuff ---- Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S ...

Safety is on everyone's mind after the Challenger and Columbia disasters, so you can be confident ...

... the mission. For the ISS re-supply missions, much of the ISS garbage and waste is stored in bags or stowage containers and placed in the multi payload logistics module (MPLM) for return to Earth at the end of the mission. The MPLM is used to bring supplies and science racks to the Station. Waste products returning to Earth ... tons. Another way to get rid of some of the trash on the Space Station is to use the Russian Progress re-supply capsules. These unmanned Progress re-supply missions bring ...

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